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Quotes About Critical

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.
~ Bret Stephens
Beyond scheduling regular checkups with my cardiologist, there is no way to know if or when my heart condition might become critical.
~ Lizzie Velasquez
In times of disaster, basic connectivity is a form of aid that connects people to the resources critical for survival and enables humanitarian organizations to quickly deliver life-saving information.
~ Tae Yoo
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.
~ Julian Baggini
We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.
~ Stephen Harper
2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once frightening and exhilarating, is that we don't know yet which way the door will swing.
~ David Ignatius
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
~ John Grierson
Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
~ Bill Ackman
In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.
~ Craig Venter
Sometimes, we forget the essence of parenting is really about nurturing critical connections that affect every child's future.
~ Reggie Joiner
One reason that the church has become so bitterly divided over moral issues is that the community of faith has uncritically accepted the categories of popular U.S. discourse about these topics, without subjecting them to sustained critical scrutiny in light of a close reading of the Bible.
~ Richard B. Hays
That society frequently chooses to ignore these scientific truths, creates races, and endows them with pseudo-permanent characteristics is of great interest to critical race theory.
~ Richard Delgado
The critical race theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.
~ Richard Delgado
critical race theory builds on the insights of two previous movements, critical legal studies and radical feminism,
~ Richard Delgado
Suddenly Fermi raised his hand. "The pile has gone critical," he announced. No one present had any doubt about it.
~ Richard Rhodes
Heroes can only thrive where ignorance reduces history to mythology. They. cannot survive the coldly critical temper of modern thought when it is functioning normally, nor can they be worshipped by a generation which has every facility for determining their foibles and analyzing their limitations.
~ Rick Perlstein
But in life, every moment can be said to be critical; all is revealed and concealed, created, maintained, and destroyed in the great dance of time.
~ Kate Elliott
Suicide, it can be seen, is the second major killer of women in this age group and the fourth major killer of men. By any standards, suicide is a critical public health problem.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
For it is, in practice, simply not possible to adopt such a critical attitude towards an employer and at the same time provide good service.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
but it seemed to her that the lack of critical newspapers made it much easier for other forms of oppression to flourish.
~ Ken Follett
the importance of a free press, but it seemed to her that the lack of critical newspapers made it much easier for other forms of oppression to flourish.
~ Ken Follett
Sin embargo, un exceso de disciplina podía acabar con el pensamiento crítico.
~ Ken Follett
The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.
~ Robert G. Allen
Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.
~ Paulo Freire