Quotes About Critique

Marx's critique of free markets and free trade can shed as much devastating light on our own actually existing capitalism as it did for the capitalism of Marx's own time and place.

Marx is engaged in a critique of classical liberal political economy. He therefore finds it necessary to accept the theses of liberalism (and, by extension to our own times, neoliberalism) in order to show that the classical political economists were profoundly wrong even in their own terms.

What's wrong with Barbara Kingsolver?" Eva asked. "She is the embodiment of liberal piety at its most middlebrow and tendentious. Her novels are the beef ribs of fiction.

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

I do not miss ITV, God no! Have you seen ITV lately?

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

The Christian-Judaic God does not exist, and if He did exist as described in the Bible, He would certainly not be a good role model.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.