Quotes About Critique

Privilege theory typically only sees social structures as the sum of their individual parts, their individual consciences. At its base level, it provides you with the fantasy of intervention and action; it offers you criticism without critique . For the proponents of privilege theory, social change follows the gradual and predictable path of reform.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

L'adoption de l'anglais a, évidemment, entraîné une critique importante : celle de privilégier la langue du colonisateur au détriment de celle des colonisés. Cette accusation a couru tout au long des décennies, mais elle repose sur un vœu qui est souvent resté pieux, celui de promouvoir les littératures en langues vernaculaires.

It became clear to us early on that Catholic dogma was pretty much a fairy story concocted to satisfy the incurious masses, and we were buying none of it.

He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

No, in the end, easier to tear it down and start over. The soundless scream of social media these days. The system must be destroyed. It can't be fixed. Unitopia must have begun to seem like a Band-Aid applied to a gaping chest wound.

A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.

If you love god, burn a church.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

He did look at his photos and decided he didn't like any of them: all that black and white, all that same old stuff, characters trying to be characters. He said, Are you trying to be a character?

Desprezava os discursadores, os astutos que entram na política como quem entra na advocacia, para ganhar dinheiro com a retórica.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.

Jeff: Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.

On ne s'est pas contenté de dénoncer les excès de l'égalitarisme, c'est le principe même d'égalité qu'on a remis en cause, et dévalorisé.