Top 100 Quotes About Critique
#1. I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.
Beth Revis
#2. I've often been criticised, but never critically wounded
Johnny Rich
#3. I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
Dan Brown
#4. I welcome reviews from all readers. I take criticism well; but please ... no comments on my author face!
C.C. Alma
#5. Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other's company even for thinking ("freedom of the pen")=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.
Hannah
#6. Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique," a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#7. when a culture needs wise spiritual guidance the most, all it gets from religious leaders is anxious condemnation and critique, along with a big dose of nostalgia for the lost golden age of the good old days. We
Brian McLaren
#8. the spectacle is an affirmation of appearances and an identification of all human social life with appearances. But a critique that grasps the spectacle's essential character reveals it to be a visible negation of life - a negation that has taken on a visible form.
Guy Debord
#9. being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism
Jill Blackmore
#10. The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.
Camille Henrot
#11. Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next. The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled.
Steve Elmendorf
#12. If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.
Esme Raji Codell
#13. 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
#14. It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim
Jason Najum
#15. After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.
Jason Najum
#16. When political authority and journalism colluded with one another, democracy lost its ability to critique and cleanse itself, allowing a deadly infection to take root.
Yoshiki Tanaka
#17. To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change.
Bell Hooks
#18. It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.
Julia Stiles
#19. There's no standard career path to becoming a deconstructor of wrongness,
David H. Freedman
#20. You were born in a culture and you are given many information about many things; unless you yourself investigate the truth of all these information, do not consider them as true information!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism .
David Harvey
#22. In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.
Doreen Orion
#23. I don't really like organizations where people are "deemed" things.
Mindy Kaling
#24. We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.
Bell Hooks
#25. Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it.
Roxane Gay
#26. 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
#27. An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann
#28. A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.
Michel Foucault
#29. There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
Al Capp
#30. Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
Francis Parker Yockey
#31. To be wild as the waves;
enshrined
by the vastness -
our cosmic immemorial.
Unsettled as the forest.
An indomitable flicker
amidst worldviews,
of jaded crowns
and romantic ash.
Steven Storm
#32. I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.
Garth Greenwell
#33. I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.
Wynton Marsalis
#34. Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
Samuel P. Huntington
#35. I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.
Claes Oldenburg
#36. The Swiss will never be the wild child of Europe; you only have to look at their lovingly tended vegetable patches to see that. But whether they are boring or not most likely depends on the eye of the beholder.
Clare O'Dea
#37. For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.
Edward Norton
#38. A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Rachel Kushner
#39. There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.
Randall Jarrell
#40. I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.
Tom Tomorrow
#42. Recognition of the political-economic forces that impose patterns of suffering is the foundation for an applied critique of policy and services that persecute oppositional, marginalized populations in the name of morality
Philippe Bourgois
#43. There's almost an element of selfies that is like photo therapy. People look upon themselves in a picture and then they critique themselves without knowing so, and that's what's happening on mass on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
Nigel Barker
#44. The outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.
Bell Hooks
#45. It's not really fun listening to an insane person. Do you realize that? You're only entertaining yourself. Not much of a host, if you don't mind my critique.
Jaron Lee Knuth
#46. We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market.
Astra Taylor
#47. These people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance ...
Ben Marcus
#48. One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
Ken Follett
#49. The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
Michel Foucault
#50. First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience of American literature. Second, it's really got to be invested in a number of what-if questions.
Kiese Laymon
#51. I don't say things straight into the other person's face. I kind of like to make a joke or a remark and make it digestible or just give a little comment that voices my concern, but is not meant to be a critique, but just a comment so that he understands that I am thinking.
Christoph Waltz
#52. 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
#53. You can critique her writing, but not her lifestyle.
Lisi Harrison
#54. Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#55. All churches must understand, love, and identify with their local community and social setting, and yet at the same time be able and willing to critique and challenge it.
Timothy Keller
#56. Does your boss listen? Give clear instructions and challenge you to really go for it? Inspire you? Praise what you do well? Critique you fairly? If yes, good for you! This is going to make it easier for you to succeed. But if you've been handed a bad boss, don't despair. A
Kate White
#57. I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.
David Maister
#58. Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
#59. 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
#60. In the spirit of Trickster, here's to turning representation against itself in the fight for survivance, for f"a new consciousness of coexistence," for a new Turtle Island.
Pauline Turner Strong
#61. 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
#62. Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question, so that if you are a reviewer or you are writing a critique you might feel as if you are stepping on someone's actual face?
Lidia Yuknavitch
#63. Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually Roosevelt wanted to keep the banks together and regulate them.
Jeffrey Rosen
#64. My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
Martin Parr
#65. [God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.
Terry Eagleton
#66. Mr. Lehrer's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.
The New York Times
#67. The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility
Gilles Deleuze
#68. In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match here.
Jean Baudrillard
#69. Everyone assumed it had to be some sort of biography, because if you are a woman and use yourself as a character, it has to be some sort of confessional, whereas if you're a man, you're actually doing some post-modern play on the novel, some critique on identity with lots of references to Foucault.
Jeanette Winterson
#70. DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.
DJ Spooky
#71. Our generation seems to be facing a crisis of critique. We want to know what's best, we want to know where to eat and what movie to see, but we've begun to forget that real opinion, real critique, must always come out of an absence of voices - from a singular subjective viewpoint. You
Michael Harris
#72. If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.
Jack Donovan
#73. Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
Alexander Pope
#75. It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.
Sverker Sorlin
#76. But lost in that sea of (valid) criticism is the perhaps subtler critique that in an age of consumerism, economic imperialism and what Martin Luther King Jr. called "jumboism," the sacrificial way of Jesus may be calling us to forsake the supersized life.
C. Christopher Smith
#77. The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
Stevie Wonder
#78. 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
#79. Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences.
Sue Monk Kidd
#80. The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.
Robert Agostinelli
#81. Human reason is by nature architectonic."
Critique of Pure Reason
Kant
#82. The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.
Shane Claiborne
#83. The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.
Eric Drooker
#84. You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.
Elly Griffiths
#85. I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.
Eliza Coupe
#86. In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites - and
Malcolm Gladwell
#87. I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.
Ryan Lilly
#88. I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.
Tom Robinson
#90. Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
Peter Kreeft
#91. I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.
Talib Kweli
#92. For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Paul Ricoeur
#93. The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance.
Paul Goodman
#94. My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
Taryn Simon
#95. People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water.
David Bowie
#96. People who read mainly the Grounding and the Critique often criticize Kant for having his head in the clouds and for not being convincingly capable of dealing with concrete cases. A reading of the Metaphysics of Morals will show anyone how unfounded such criticisms are.
Immanuel Kant
#97. Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
Paula Abdul
#98. There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.
P. J. O'Rourke
#99. I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.
Alison Assiter
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