Cultural Criticism Quotes

#1. I'd love to give Malcolm the truck. We're going to figure out how to make that happen.

Tom Brady

#2. One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.

Bell Hooks

#3. I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm.

Jason Najum

#4. I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Bell Hooks

#5. Norman Rockwell saved my life.

Jane Allen Petrick

#6. Digital forms are best illuminated by cultural criticism, which uses the tools of art and literary theory to make sense of the Internet's glorious illusion: that the Internet is life. Because

Virginia Heffernan

#7. How's life?"
"That's the stupidest question I've ever heard.

Joe Meno

#8. If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.

Michael Hastings

#9. I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.

Simon Cowell

#10. Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness.

Cloe Madanes

#11. The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

Lee Myung-bak

#12. All great art is praise.

John Ruskin

#13. A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.

Northrop Frye

#14. I just wanted to do something important.

Norman Rockwell

#15. Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland 'firestorm' of 1991? No need. There are already there, in my narratives that fail to mention them, in my dreams that fail to represent them.

Robert Appelbaum

#16. Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of our praise.

Jerry Bridges

#17. We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?

Max De Pree

#18. When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

Bell Hooks

#19. A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to

Jason Najum

#20. There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.

Roxane Gay

#21. Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, So, you're back from Moscow, eh?

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

Marc Maron

#23. Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.

David Suzuki