Polemical Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a…
— Michael Haneke
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Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common…
— Fethullah Gulen
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I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to…
— Louis Begley
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
— Carlisle Floyd
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I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works…
— Peter Greenaway
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Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
— Michel Houellebecq
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
— David Hume
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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will…
— J M Coetzee
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Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear,…
— Alain de Botton
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An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one…
— Cynthia Ozick
Who Wrote These Polemical Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Polemical Quotes as follows: