Polemics Quotes

25 quotes by 22 authors

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. — Art Spiegelman
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery Iâ€™ve made is that itâ€™s complicated. I think thatâ€™s one of good things about exploring these questions in a… — Hari Kunzru
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… — Renata Adler
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we… — John Gresham Machen
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. — Dirk Bogarde
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction — Mikhail Gorbachev
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic. — Ferran Adria
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. — Walter Benjamin
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big… — Bob Dylan
An important work of architecture will create polemics. — Richard Meier
The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in… — H. L. Mencken
(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more comprehensive: they project… — Kenny Smith
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… — Kenny Smith
Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at… — Margaret MacMillan
History is but the polemics of the victor. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. — Richard Meier
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. — Jorge Luis Borges
there's always a polemic in my clothes. — Vivienne Westwood
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me,… — Tony Kushner

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