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Quotes About Critique

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
~ Roger Ebert
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
~ Roger Ebert
Le plus mauvais film américain est toujours véridique, il rend toujours fidèlement compte des États-Unis. Cela
~ Romain Gary
Elle n'avait jamais vraiment aimé les impressionnistes. Elle trouvait qu'ils manquaient d'outrance, de passion. Seul Renoir, parfois, savait traiter un corps de femme avec ce manque de respect qui lui était dû.
~ Romain Gary
The secular critique of communalism is not an opposition to religion but to the abuse of religion.
~ Romila Thapar
Curates are such triflers.
~ Ronald Firbank
Trump's slogan to "make America great again" sounds so hollow and laughable!
~ Ronald J. Sider
I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.
~ Roone Arledge
So your junk food has a shelf life of twenty-two years and will probably outlive your fat, sorry ass.
~ Rory Freedman
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
Ce monde n' est je vous l'assure qu'une immense entreprise à se foutre du monde!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
La tyrannie sans risque, sans peine... Ce sont les ratés les plus rances qui décrètent le goût du jour !... Qui ne sait rien foutre, loupe toutes ses entreprises possède encore un merveilleux recours : Critique !... Trouvaille inouïe des temps modernes, plus aucun compte jamais à rendre. Critique ne relève que de son propre culot, de ses sales petites gardiens des plus fienteux égouts... Tout en ombres, baves, toxines, immondices, curées...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Certainly my work is negative, destructive; but … only in relation to the unhuman, not to the human[.]
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It was an awful thought to go and sit there among logical positivists ...
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is "ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog's belly".
~ Lynne Truss
A falta de uma crítica assim é um dos maiores males de que padece a nossa literatura; é mister que a análise corrija ou anime a invenção, que os pontos de doutrina e de história se investiguem, que as belezas se estudem, que os senões se apontem, que o gosto se apure e eduque, e se desenvolva e caminhe aos altos destinos que a esperam.
~ Machado de Assis
A ferocidade, Sr. Soares, é o grotesco a sério.
~ Machado de Assis
I can see him and I hate the bastard already: short-sighted and promiscuous, six foot three of gristle and bristle and pathos, of deep-voiced charm and casuistry. . . Business-like, inept and unintelligent, strong and infantile, like most American men, quick to wield chairs in a fight, vain, and who, at thirty still ten, turns the act of love into a kind of dysentery...
~ Malcolm Lowry
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
~ Edmonia Lewis
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
~ Tim Robbins
But I also hate Nietzsche. I wish you would tell me something that would make me understand him. I began with Zarathustra—fatuous language, and the world full of "tougher and merrier" men!
~ Anais Nin