Critical Quotes - Page 19

• For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.

  Nigel Gibson

  Self, Ideas, Colonialism

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, America, Israel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.

  David E. Cooper

  Writing, Dust, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The demands of the economy, and more recently those of political correctness and the diktat against ever offending anyone, are not conducive to a classroom or university seminar climate in which genuinely free and critical reflection on how to live prospers.

  David E. Cooper

  Reflection, Offending, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have literally sold everything they have to sell. They have sold their honesty. They've sold their integrity. They've sold America down the river. They have sold everything in order to amass critical personal wealth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Honesty, Integrity, Order

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Community, Doe

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• New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call 'a center' or 'the center of the universe,' has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.

  Junot Diaz

  New York, Two, Vision

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• Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

  Cory Doctorow

  Novel, Things To Do, My Own

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Critical Analysis, Political, Negative

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• For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Men, Thinking, Order

  "The Limits of State Power in Africa: A Case Srudy of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Book by Georges/Sembe Bakaly (p. 14), 2006.

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• Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

  Sylvia Earle

  Loss, Resilience, Coral Reefs

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• If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

  Umberto Eco

  Mind, Enlightenment, Western Culture

  "The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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• We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Justice, Leader, Movement

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Struggle, Self, Watches

  "Sitting Down and Having Pizza With Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari". Interview with Cyrus Saatsaz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

  Tim Ferriss

  Knives, Skills, Kitchen

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• There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Self, Way

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• The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Car, Facts, Electric

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• The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Differences, Theatre, Energy

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

  Al Gore

  People, World, Spinning

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• I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Moving, Political

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• There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, Trying, Albums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

  Michael Gove

  Children, School, Play

  "Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• 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

  Done, May, Way

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• The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

  Thomas Hardy

  Years, Office, Decision

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Thomas Hardy”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Purpose, Helping, Remember

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