Quotes About Critique

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism thinking (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, with me or against me, and most of the time you'll be wrong.

Without some deconstruction, everything becomes idolatrous. The prophets were religious deconstructionists.

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism "thinking

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Christianity. To refuse to critique the system or the status quo is to fully support it—which is a political act well disguised. Like Pilate, many Christians choose to wash their hands in front of the crowd and declare themselves innocent, saying with him, "It is your concern" (Matthew 27:25). Pilate maintains his purity and Jesus pays the price.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Christianity. To refuse to critique the system or the status quo is to fully support it—which is a political act well disguised.

In his critique of his fathers and uncles, Jung recognized that many humans had become reflections of the punitive God they worshipped. A forgiving God allows us to recognize the good in the supposed bad, and the bad in the supposed perfect or ideal.

Henry Miller's Air-Conditioned Nightmare

As we got older, we went on talking about the Gallery. If you wanted to praise someone's work, you'd say: "That's good enough for the Gallery." And after we discovered irony, whenever we came across any laughably bad work, we'd go: "Oh yes! Straight to the Gallery with that one!

Hakkai: Your footwork is lacking. Gojyo: It's hard to control such long, sexy gams.

The fourth issue would go to the printer tomorrow. He was not so happy with this one: there was no big controversy. He put that out of his mind for the moment and

we can find flaws in their methodology

He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.

David Felton, his former editor at Rolling Stone, called it "probably the worst-edited and most self-indulgent work since the Bible. There doesn't seem to be any order.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

You do as chapmen do,Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy.

Flatter yourself critically.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

let's say, fairly limited in their skills. Joel Osteen. Kenneth Copeland. Paula White. I mean, really.

conclusion: evangelicalism was both incoherent and oppressive.