Quotes About Polemics

#1. The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

Patricia J. Williams

#2. Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

Mason Cooley

#3. But the fact is, again and again in my lifetime, the vicious vituperations, the polemics, the dialectics, the sophistries of politics have become vapour and mist, while what remains is the literature and the art, which at the time might have been merely tolerated by the politicos.

Doris Lessing

#4. It is a horrible thing to have to enter into the details
of inter-party polemics; it is like diving into a cesspool.

George Orwell

#5. When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#6. In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.

Jack Schwartz

#7. People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

Renata Adler

#8. Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha).

Kenny Smith

#9. It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#10. History is but the polemics of the victor.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#11. Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Walter Benjamin

#12. The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it contains discrepancies, some non historical legends, and polemics.

Marvin Perry

#13. In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

Jorge Luis Borges

#14. Leading the Jewish people is not easy
we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

Shimon Peres

#15. Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

Kaija Saariaho

#16. I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a place for polemics, but I don't think that it is in fictional cinema. Fictional cinema works subtly and deeply.

Sally Potter

#17. Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Christopher Hitchens

#18. One parody is worth a thousand polemics ...

Jennifer Stone

#19. An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Richard Meier

#20. Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.

Angelica Hopes

#21. I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.

Tony Goldwyn

#22. Without the Ermen & Engels mill in Salford, owned by Friedrich Engels's textile-manufacturing father, the chronically impoverished Marx might well have not survived to pen polemics against textile manufacturers. Something

Terry Eagleton

#23. Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.

Stephanie Zacharek

#24. The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

Honore De Balzac

#26. You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

Ferran Adria

#27. There's always a polemic in my clothes.

Vivienne Westwood

#28. your content is boring then people are not going to read it and engage with you. If

Andy Headworth

#29. I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

Matt Taibbi

#30. Again and again the old groupings of left and right no longer seem helpful. Sloganeering and dogmatizing settle nothing, nor do emotional tirades and protests really help us sort things through in a thoughtful, biblical fashion.

Arthur F. Holmes

#31. ROM7.3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Anonymous

#32. It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#33. Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?

Paul Craig Roberts