Quotes About Critique

Barbara Ehrenreich

One of the clearest ways to evaluate the common beliefs of a society is to consider the satires that arise within it. Satire makes fun of standard assumptions, perspectives, views, and beliefs.

Kill your darlings.

There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?

One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire.

la falta de atención a los descubrimientos que han transformado la vida para mejor justifica una crítica de nuestra apreciación de la condición humana moderna.

El ideal del progreso tampoco debería confundirse con el movimiento del siglo XX para rediseñar la sociedad al antojo de los tecnócratas y los planificadores, que el politólogo James Scott denomina «alto modernismo autoritario».

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

There will always be people better than you—that's a cliché of nihilism, like the phrase, In a million years, who's going to know the difference? The proper response to that statement is not, Well, then, everything is meaningless. It's, Any idiot can choose a frame of time within which nothing matters. Talking yourself into irrelevance is not a profound critique of Being. It's a cheap trick of the rational mind.

Nietzsche writes, "The Christians have never practiced the actions Jesus prescribed them; and the impudent garrulous talk about the 'justification by faith' and its supreme and sole significance is only the consequence of the Church's lack of courage and will to profess the works Jesus demanded."144 Nietzsche was, indeed, a critic without parallel.

Talking yourself into irrelevance is not a profound critique of Being. It's a cheap trick of the rational mind.

Eu não entendo nada de pintura, não posso criticar. Mas o que eu gostaria de saber é que coisa o pintor quis mostrar com essa complicação... João olhou a tela mais uma vez: — Antes de tudo ele quis não mostrar a realidade. É uma das maneiras de fazer arte contra o povo. —

No ya vanguardia o tradición, sino compromiso, formal y temático, con una nueva sensibilidad temporal, con un uso creativo (y, en consecuencia, crítico) de las imágenes. O desaparición en la técnica, fundido en esa unidad técnico-comunicativa que constituyen los lenguajes hiperestetizados de la cultura de masas. Estamos asistiendo al necesario nacimiento de una nueva moral de la actividad artística o su disolución

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

There is a sure rule for judging books just as there is for judging men: it is enough to know by whom they are loved, and by whom they are hated.

Mikhailovsky

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare not well done.

I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.

Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

When you're making a film, you don't really have time to consider what the whole of your film is. And then, when you're releasing your film and promoting your film, you're looking at it in a different way. Then, as you move away from it, you start to look at it objectively and think, 'What could I have done better?'

A lack of grace involves much more than critiquing an opponent. It looks a lot more like the ad hominem attacks the president launches nearly daily against all who aren't actively worshiping him. It looks like Trump's relentless attempts to pit Americans against one another.

Religion is the opium of the masses.