Criticism Quote by Octavio Paz

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

— Octavio Paz

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based…

— Robert Reich

[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have…

— T. S. Eliot

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as…

— Rod Serling

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment,…

— Steven Pinker

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

— John Cusack

“I intended to make it sound guileless and rather sweet but you will see in it the little blades of social criticism without which…

— John Steinbeck

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She…

— Wesley Morris

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

— Constance Rourke

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she…

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of…

— Jodi Picoult