Quotes About Critique

Everything that men have written about women should be viewed with suspicion, because they are both judge and party,' wrote Poulain de la Barre,11 a little-known seventeenth-century feminist.

Non avevo idee sovversive, anzi, non avevo affatto idee, su nulla; ma per tutto il giorno mi allenavo a riflettere, a comprendere, a criticare, e mi ponevo domande; cercavo con precisione la verità: questo scrupolo mi rendeva inadatta alle conversazioni mondane.

Certainly Lewis failed—or refused—to sketch a solution to the threat of fascism. He was a social satirist, not a systematic political thinker or theorist. Worth

Babbitt looked up irritably from the comic strips in the Evening Advocate. They composed his favorite literature and art, these illustrated chronicles in which Mr. Mutt hit Mr. Jeff with a rotten egg, and Mother corrected Father's vulgarisms by means of a rolling-pin. With the solemn face of a devotee, breathing heavily through his open mouth, he plodded nightly through every picture, and during the rite he detested interruptions.

While he was bored by free verse and cubism, he thought rather well of Dreiser, Cabell, and so much of Proust as he had rather laboriously mastered.

He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri, the little girl continued. I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It's not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the trees.

She's not talking to me. She's talking to the Imaginary Daily Mail Judge, who constantly watches her life and gives it marks out of ten.

my whole authorship pertains to Christianity, to the issue: becoming a Christian, with direct and indirect polemical aim at that enormous illusion, Christendom-- Soren Kierkegaard The Point of View for My Work as an Author, (The Single Individual)

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

It seemed to me that much philosophical talk about meaning was just plain hypocritical.

Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

That's what's wrong with America today, I guess. Something like that. I know something's wrong with America. Maybe that's it.

To combat cultural genocide one needs a critique of civilization itself. -Gary Snyder

Bach, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Dostoievski ÅŸi Nietzsche sunt singurul argument împotriva monoteismului.

An den Verheißungen der Utopie scheint alles bewundernswert und ist alles falsch; an den Feststellungen der Reaktionäre ist alles verabscheuenswert und scheint alles wahr.

The book which, after demolishing everything, fails to demolish itself will have exasperated us to no purpose.

Whenever philosophers insinuate themselves into Letters, it is to exploit their confusion or to precipitate their collapse.

I infallibly discern a flaw in all those who are interested in the same things as myself. . . .

Revolutions is a sublime of bad literature.