Criticism Quote by David Denby

“Most people are just too self-absorbed, well-meaning, and lazy to bother orchestrating Machiavellian plans to slight or insult us. It’s more often a boring,…

— Tim Kreider

“WE END UP with the following situation: on the one hand, we have a news agenda dominated by reports of the workings of a…

— Alain de Botton

“Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle…

— Leslie McFarlane

“Without really wanting to at all, they pay calls and carry on conversations, sit out their hours at desks and on office chairs; and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

“There are some who never try, get left behind, forever dying, they just sit it by on the sidelines while they criticize, hide and…

— Criss Jami

“When watching the news, it’s so easy to forget what most of us are like: pleasant, polite, socially shy. We don’t want rows, we…

— David Mitchell

“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress by force…

— Susan Sontag

“They march in the streets and the classrooms and the courtrooms and the parliaments and the boardrooms, and we thought they would stop, but…

— Natalie Kyriacou

“People don’t want the illusion of their manufactured personalities, their political saviors, shattered; personalities created by public relations industries. They don’t want to do…

— Chris Hedges

“It’s all a complete farce you understand? We’re born into a losing struggle...I’ve investigated the road up ahead. No one comes out of this…

— Christopher Hitchens

“They're working hard and persisting through difficulties because of their internal desire to control their lives, learn about their world, and accomplish something that…

— Daniel H. Pink