Social Critique Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The conservative social critique always boils down to the same simple message: liberalism - meaning everything from racy TV to deconstructionists in the Yale French Department - is an affectation of the loathsome rich, as bizarre as their taste for Corgi dogs and extra-virgin olive oil.

Thomas Frank

#3. 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

#4. first international crisis.

Ken Follett

#5. I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn needs critiquing for literary or social reasons.

Norman Lock

#6. Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#7. We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves us away from some of the most common, obvious pitfalls of neoliberal social movement strategies.

Dean Spade

#8. God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

Oscar Wilde

#9. A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let his family starve.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal

David Baldacci

#11. Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.

Nalini Singh

#12. Elementary school children are very impressionable

David J. Anderson

#13. Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.

Andrew Carnegie

#14. Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

Hilary Hahn

#15. 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

#16. I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#17. Problems only exist in the human mind.

Anthony De Mello

#18. I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.

Yayoi Kusama

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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