Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested,… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. — Dirk Bogarde Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it. — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
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… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
“That book of [Melancthon], to my mind, deserves not merely to live as long as books are read, but to take its… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
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… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Again and again the old groupings of left and right no longer seem helpful. Sloganeering and dogmatizing settle nothing, nor do emotional… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
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