Quotes About Criticism

In Holland vergeleek men hoeren met paarden.

This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.

I cared nothing; my point of view in that instance, as in all others like it, was, that if the paper chose to send an outsider and an ignoramus to criticise works of art - especially the works of a new and tentative and experimental school - then, on the head of the paper let the just doom fall.

Revolutionär ohne Mut, abenteuerlustig ohne die Fähigkeit, Unbequemlichkeiten zu ertragen — Egoist ohne Rücksichtslosigkeit - und endlich ein Künstler ohne Fleiß - ein Selbstkenner ohne Tendenz zur Besserung — ein Verächter des allgemeinen Urteils mit der kleinlichsten Empfindlichkeit

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

A mí no me mueve el amor por la humanidad, sino el desprecio hacia ella.

Del mismo tamaño de su capacidad para denunciar los males es su incapacidad para resolverlos seriamente.

People scorn the poor who have no wealth, They also criticize the rich who have it. What pleasure can derive from keeping company With people such as these, so difficult to please?

Nobody could have possibly known that the FBI had sent a phony letter to Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers, 'signed' by the Panther 21, criticizing Huey Newton's leadership... no one could have known that the FBI's cointelpro was attempting to destroy the Black Panther Party in particular, and the Black Liberation movement in general, using divide-and-conquer tactics.

Bullshit, as usual

I don't want 'constructive criticism'. I want praise.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Ones ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the many little men hold the power, and the great only serve the little men. I've never met such proud people as the humble; I've never met an uneducated man who didn't believe himself in a position to criticise learning and to do without it.

Os jornalistas são profissionais interessantes. São como bactérias que criticam o sistema, mas dependem dele para sobreviver.

La crítica hiere a las personas, el prejuicio, las anula.

No tengas miedo de la difamación externa. Teme a tus propios pensamientos, pues solamente ellos pueden penetrar tu esencia y destruirla.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

Unlike white commentators, who were hamstrung by the fear that they would be labeled racist, I could voice my criticisms of the feudal, religious, and repressive mechanisms that were holding back women from Muslim communities.

People in the West... have learned not to examine the religions or cultures of minorities too critically for fear of being called racist.