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Quotes About Critique

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
~ Albert Einstein
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
~ P.J. O'Rourke
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.
~ Guenter Lewy
God save us from religion.
~ David Eddings
Religion fosters servility and solipsism.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.
~ Jon Stewart
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.
~ Bill Maher
I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.
~ David Cross
Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel
~ Aja Monet
Christianity is such a silly religion.
~ Gore Vidal
churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.
~ Georgia Harkness
The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
How many evils have flowed from religion.
~ Lucretius
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.
~ Voltaire
Religion is the opium of the people.
~ Karl Marx
Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value.
~ Nick Krampus
That's not a religion, that's Pokemon.
~ Stephen Colbert, I Am America
'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
~ Salman Rushdie
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly.
~ H. L. Mencken
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.
~ Hunter Parrish
There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.
~ Mark Twain
We must remind] those who are too quick to engage in critiques of Eurocentrism that the very conceptual tools they use are part of (what these same critics identify as) the European philosophical tradition, evidence precisely of these tools' subversive universality.
~ Zahi Zalloua
Without self-violence, without the will to unplug from the system and its rewards, critique will only ever be the semblance of critique, reform without transformation.
~ Zahi Zalloua
Ideology critique or antiracist thinking is not simply about determining the truth or falsity of a given matter but also about evaluating its framing, packaging, or staging for comprehension. Ideology critique must not settle for discerning the truth or falsehood of facts.
~ Zahi Zalloua