Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze… — Oswald Chambers
Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described… — Judith Butler
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests.… — Aldous Huxley
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance… — J. Paul Getty
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. — Howard Mumford Jones
Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. — Walter Lippmann
Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without… — Judith Crist
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let… — Michael Scheuer
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the… — Wim Wenders
In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and… — Kenzaburo Oe
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is… — Anne Stevenson
Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong.… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. — Paul Samuelson
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it… — K. Eric Drexler
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element… — Theodor Adorno
. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how… — Wole Soyinka
I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year,… — Gregory A. Boyd
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a… — William Morris Hunt
One of my constant reminders is, 'End practice on a happy note.' I want the boys to want to come out to practice; and I… — John Wooden
One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for… — Willie Mays
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in… — Jonathan Culler
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a… — Northrop Frye
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… — Northrop Frye
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature,… — Northrop Frye
The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism — Karl Marx

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