Critique Quotes - Page 10

• There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Two, People, Shadow

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Kids, Disrespect, Democracy

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 64, 1980.

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.

  William O. Douglas

  Government, Self, People

  "Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 29, 1972.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Two, Quality

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore witness. He left a committed life so that people would never forget the suffering of people that he was connected to. King was prophetic because he lived a committed life. Now he did critique society, saying you're going to go under if you don't treat your poor right. I mean, that is part of prophetic calling, but it's not predicting anything.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Mean, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!

  Jean Baudrillard

  Heart, Class, Use

  "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy". Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 15, 1987.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

  Alan Watts

  Buddhism, Culture, Loyal

  "Psychotherapy, East and West" by Alan Watts, (p. 7), 1961.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

  Camille Paglia

  Years, Intellectual, Twenties

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

  Terry Eagleton

  Important, Ideology, Make Sense

  Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.14, Verso

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.

  Martin Heidegger

  Doe, Matter, Ought

  Martin Heidegger (1979). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Distinction, Threat

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.

  Susan McClary

  Symphony, Musical, Enlightenment

  "Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality". Book by Susan McClary, 1991.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

  John Carroll

  Ambition, Commitment, Fiction

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.83, Taylor & Francis

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.

  Alan Moore

  War, Doors, Differences

  "Correspondence: From Hell". Alan Moore and Dave Sim, "Cerebus" #220 (comic book series by Dave Sim), July 1, 1997.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For heaven's sake, gang of critics, don't the books which you do not understand at least deserve recognition?

  Boris Vian

  Book, Heaven, Sake

  1948 In La Seine,19 Apr.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily interested in critique as such. ... Their work is too egoistically compelled for them ever to employ the external world as more than the repository for a series of projections of their own.

  John Carroll

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

  7 Copy quote

• The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

  Robert Gilpin

  Assuming, Individual, Marxist

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.37, Princeton University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried more weight if it came from a prison governor. (My friend John O'Sullivan puts it like this: If the pope says he believes in God, he's only doing his job; if he says he doesn't believe in God, he may be on to something.)

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jobs, Believe, Punishment

  "What Sharon Did" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. January 5, 2006.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

  Barbara Sher

  Meaningful, Criticism, Purpose

  12 Copy quote

• What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Economic, Economy, Sovereignty

  "Liberty and Property". Book by Ludwig von Mises, October 15, 1958.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

  David Shields

  Character, Self

  Source: www.gq.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, People, Common

  "Occupational hazards" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2007.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.

  Mariah Carey

  Hurt, Giving, Feelings

  "Q&A WITH MARIAH CAREY : 'My Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal'". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.

  Stephen Burt

  Giving Up, Poetry, Personality

  Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

  Noam Chomsky

  Profit, Fairs, Ifs

  "The Callous System of Student Debt and the Structure of the "Free Market"". Interview with William Hodgkinson, chomsky.info. May 14, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source