Quotes About Criticism

Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

always remember that we are in Germany where we have been able to do what would have been possible nowhere else: namely to proclaim as a great mind and profound thinker a mindless, ignorant, nonsense-spreading philosophaster who, through unprecedented, hollow verbiage, thoroughly and permanently disorganizes their brains. I mean our dear Hegel. And

C? îns? un patron absolut tic?los precum Hegel, a c?rui întreag? pseudofilozofare a fost de fapt o amplificare monstruoas? a argumentului ontologic, a c?utat s?-I apere pe acesta împotriva criticii lui Kant constituie o alian?? de care însuÅŸi argumentului ontologic i s-ar face ruÅŸine, oricât de puÅ£in are el de-a face cu ruÅŸinea.

M?i chân lý ??u Ä'i qua 3 bÆ°á»›c: ??u tiên, nó b? nh?o báng, Sau Ä'ó, nó b? ph?n ??i k?ch li?t, Cu?i cùng, ng??i ta ch?p nh?n nó nhÆ° má»™t sá»± th?t hi?n nhiên.

Speaking for myself, I am no flag waver, no patriot, and I am fully aware that venality, brutality, and hypocrisy are imprinted on the leaden soul of every state. But when a country ceases to be merely a country and becomes an empire, then the scale of operations changes dramatically. So may I clarify that tonight I speak as a subject of the American empire? I speak as a slave who presumes to criticize her king.

They denounced him for his "Parliamentary Cretinism" and accused him of "providing relief to the people and thereby blunting the People's Consciousness and diverting them from the Revolution.

Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.

Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it. You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.

To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great?

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.

In one job, his boss always seemed to criticize him for what he did wrong and never noticed all the things he did right.

Cicero's take on official Rome was less flattering: "A more raffish assemblage never sat down in a low-grade music hall," he huffed

The censure of fools or knaves," he would remind his wife, "is applause.

He has to survive this, if only to avoid having his digital corpse kicked to pieces by those grunting, knuckle-dragging troglodytes otherwise known as commenters.

But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat.

Scientific "facts" are taught at a very early age and in the very same manner in which religious "facts" were taught only a century ago.… But science is excepted from criticism. In society at large the judgment of the scientist is received with the same reverence as the judgment of bishops and cardinals was accepted not too long ago.… science has now become as oppressive as the ideologies it had once to fight. (ibid., p. 182)

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone

El problema es que todo el mundo siempre compara a todos con todos y que eso le quita mérito a la gente

My mom usually helps her aunt prepare the food, which my grandfather always says is too dry even if it's soup. And her aunt will then cry and lock herself in the bathroom.

I like the fact of John McCain's head being severed. Like that it will fit so much more nicely up George Bush's butt!

Arnold said, "Poetry should be a criticism of life

It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. - About The Da Vinci Code