Quotes About Critical

Even though cryptography is only a small part of the security system, it is a very critical part. Cryptography is the part that has to provide access to some people but not to others. This is very tricky.

What we witness at the fea is not just a celebration of the multiplicity of modernities but also, and more importantly, a critical commentary on local structures of inequality that take for granted that both tradition and modernity are the prerogatives of the high ranking and wealthy.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

For children to know and regulate their emotions, and be socially connected, they need to experience this kind of interaction many hundreds of times in the critical period and then to have it reinforced later in life.

The primary function of education is to make one maladjusted to ordinary society.

The first level of understanding necessary to faith is becoming critically aware of our dilemma in life without God.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Experience is a doorway, not a final goal. Beware of building your faith on experience, or your life will not ring true and will only sound the note of a critical spirit.

Beware of building your faith on experience, or your life will not ring true and will only sound the note of a critical spirit.

Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.

If a situation requires swearing to God it is — by definition — extreme.

You know the type, some tight-laced spinster with a mouth like a cat's ass.

some tight-laced spinster with a mouth like a cat's ass.

If, instead of seeking approval, you ask, 'What's wrong with it? How can I make it better?', you are more likely to get a truthful, critical answer.

This distinction between empathy and compassion is critical for the argument I've been making throughout this book.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

I have this special ability to see the fault, the defect, the thing that is wrong with any person, place, thing or situation. I see right to the core of the problem. Not only can I see it, I need to tell you about it because I'm sure you want to know.

We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense.

Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.

Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic.

It would be an extremely naive attitude to wait for the ruling classes to develop a form of education that would provide the dominated classes to understand social injustices in a critical way.

It is not surprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.

Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes "the practice of freedom," the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.