Quotes About Critique

I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.

L'ironie dénonce, le cynisme autorise.

Most of the time, I wasn't interested in inflicting pain on myself and others unless it was in a way that would make people think about the way they act, the society they live in or the things they take for granted.

Many teachers in the humanities have treated it as true that this country was always fundamentally capitalist, intending the word to mean more or less what they think Karl Marx intended by it. In 99.5 percent of cases they have never read a page of Marx, so they have no idea what he was describing.

El liberalismo es una doctrina que no tiene respuestas para todo, como pretende el marxismo, y admite en su seno la divergencia y la crítica, a partir de un cuerpo pequeño pero inequívoco de convicciones. Por ejemplo, que la libertad es el valor supremo y que ella no es divisible y fragmentaria, que es una sola y debe manifestarse en todos los dominios —el económico, el político, el social, el cultural— en una sociedad genuinamente democrática.

que la crítica y la alta cultura. ¿Por qué? Porque el erotismo, que convierte el acto sexual en obra de arte, en un ritual al que la literatura, las artes plásticas, la música y una refinada sensibilidad impregnan de imágenes de elevado virtuosismo estético, es la negación misma de ese sexo fácil, expeditivo y promiscuo

En la civilización del espectáculo, el intelectual sólo interesa si sigue el juego de moda y se vuelve un bufón.

La cultura puede ser experimento y reflexión, pensamiento y sueño, pasión y poesía y una revisión crítica constante y profunda de todas las certidumbres, convicciones, teorías y creencias. Pero ella no puede apartarse de la vida real, de la vida verdadera, de la vida vivida, que no es nunca la de los lugares comunes, la del artificio, el sofisma y el juego, sin riesgo

When McIntyre & McKitrick itemized specific problems with Mann's work of the kind he had raised more generally back in 1996, Wigley was sympathetic - if only in private.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

casual comments I may or may not have made, in which I may have suggested she was the "hellspawn of Betty Crocker and Charles Manson.

Adorno treated popular culture as a ghastly trick played by capitalism on the masses.

I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.

There is the review intended to sell a book, — which comes out immediately after the appearance of the book, or sometimes before it; the review which gives reputation, but does not affect the sale, and which comes a little later; the review which snuffs a book out quietly; the review which is to raise or lower the author a single peg, or two pegs, as the case may be; the review which is suddenly to make an author, and the review which is to crush him.

I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.

Most of us know when we enter a drawing-room whether it is a pretty room or no; but how few of us know how to make a drawing-room pretty! There has come up in London in these latter days a form of room so monstrously ugly that I will venture to say that no other people on earth but Londoners would put up with it. Londoners, as a rule, take their houses as they can get them, looking only to situation, size, and price.

All writing is pigshit.

Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.

She could probably kill Jaydra, and the other woman would manage to come back from the dead to critique her technique.

He seems to have declared war on the King's English as well as on the English king.

Men were handy to have around, when required. They were not particularly intelligent, but they could be taught to fetch and light cigarettes, run errands, open doors and give satisfaction in bed. They made excellent pets, dressed and bathed themselves and were toilet-trained. An amusing species.

In an era when most bands were about nothing, the Manics were about everything: an eloquent scream, a j'accuse to the entire moribund millennium.

but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.