Quotes About Criticism

There is a tendency on the left, to think if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be for the lowest possible reason and if you found the lowest possible motive you have found the right one. Theres this whole culture of no one would leave us or quarrel with us if they weren't a sellout. It is actually a very sick mentality and very widespread.

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other words, religion is the self-consciousness and self-feeling of man who has either not yet found himself or has already lost himself again.

When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.

We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worship of humans to the fanatics—but aware as we are of his many crimes and contradictions we say with confidence that his memory and example will endure long after the moral pygmies who try to blot out his name have been forgotten.

People say, What's it like to be a minority of one, or a kick-bag for the Internet? It washes off me like jizz off a porn star's face.

I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making.

By the way, if you knew how you sounded when you hissed, you wouldn't do it: you sound like such berks when you do that.

And now behold what this pious old trout hath wrought.

Those who try to condemn or embarrass you by the company you keep will usually be found to be in very poor company themselves; in any case they are, as I was once taught to say, tackling the man and not the ball.

Thus the mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

In the struggle against that state of affairs criticism is no passion of the head, it is the head of passion. It is not a lancet, it is a weapon. Its object is its enemy, which it wants not to refute but to exterminate.

To many of us, the claims of Prophet Muhammad to be a Prophet are absurd! Of course we have the right to do that, just as we have the right to represent unchaste nuns, and child-raping priests, and the other people who also claim a special right, because they claim that their own bigotry is divine.

Which is why you chose to wear that delightful ensemble from the skank-wear collection at Hoes-n-Thangs? -Tommy

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

Go away. Your feet are misshapen and your eyebrows grow together in a threatening way.

feedback is meant to address the problem, not the person.

The criticism that hip hop advocates and thus causes violence relies on the unsubstantiated but widely held belief that listening to violent stories or consuming violent images directly encourages violent behavior.

Now why [...] should I worry about what people say when my own father call me a whore?

Did you hear the nonsensical prattle spewing from her pie-hole?

i saggi critici vengono letti e giudicati da altri critici e raramente dall'artista analizzato, che o non è abbonato alla rivista o è già morto da due secoli.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Wasn't it true, asked the violinist, that a revolution sometimes degenerated and fell into the hands of men who used its slogans as covers for their love of personal power? And when you had a one-party system and suppressed all criticism, how could any evil be corrected?

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.