Critical Quotes - Page 18

• Both of our nations [America and Germany] were proud to join the Paris Climate Agreement which the world should work to implement quickly. Continued global leadership on climate in addition to increasing private investment and clean energy is gonna be critical to meeting this growing threat.

  Barack Obama

  Agreement, Paris, America

  Source: time.com

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• Intelligence is a critical thing.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• As an actor you do look for a certain amount of critical acclaim and recognition from your peers and the industry at large. When that recognition comes to you, it's a special moment that you cherish and you always feel successful despite what the box office says.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Successful, Office, Special

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• There is extensive critical scholarship that provides illustrations in many areas of scholarship. I've discussed many cases myself, while also citing and often relying on academic studies that disentangle these webs of mystification woven for the general public. It's impossible to provide illustrations that would even approach accuracy, let alone carry any conviction, without going well beyond the bounds of this discussion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Illustration, Woven, Citing

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eye, Important, Special

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all critical of the states he worships, and of power generally (except, of course, the power of enemies, which we must denounce, imitating the commissars who are his models, though he doesn't understand it).

  Noam Chomsky

  Memories, Enemy, Trying

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Vacuums, American Universities

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Political, Understanding

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Thinking, Psychics

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that empathy. It's one thing to attain it intellectually, but it's another thing to do something about it.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Empathy, Problem, Manifestation

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy is South African and therefore the engagement of the South African investor is also a critical part of this process.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Engagement, Investment, Economy

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.

  Vaclav Havel

  Rights, Suffering, Balance

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Wall, Government

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm so critical, especially of the movies I do. If the movie flows and I buy it, that's important. Beyond it working, if I buy the character, especially if I'm close to the character.

  Wade Eastwood

  Character, Important, Flow

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

  John Legend

  Beautiful, Powerful, Land

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I'm not interested in scoring points or being over-critical of the US administration. I want to find the entry points to try and get it back on track so that the United States can get out of the present disastrous situation it's in, and back into being a constructive force for human rights in the world.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Track, Trying

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do highly productive work. That's it. I don't know why that can't be done except for the fact that I think that people mistrust their own ideals today. I don't think that they don't believe in them; I think they mistrust the viability of them. They're afraid to commit themselves to their ideals.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Thinking, Productive Work

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• [Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the settlements than the previous presidents.

  David Brooks

  Israel, President, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Years, Body

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Fighting, And Love

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at all times, and especially in these times! Our voices have never been so very critical.

  Lawrence English

  Voice, Political, Doe

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.

  Geert Wilders

  Christian, Islamic, Looks

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting.

  Bill Gates

  Unique, Space, Clouds

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at really critical moments. That much I believe.

  George Saunders

  Hurt, Believe, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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