Critical Quotes - Page 17

• As an actor you do look for a certain amount of critical acclaim and recognition from your peers and the industry at large. When that recognition comes to you, it's a special moment that you cherish and you always feel successful despite what the box office says.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Successful, Office, Special

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• There is extensive critical scholarship that provides illustrations in many areas of scholarship. I've discussed many cases myself, while also citing and often relying on academic studies that disentangle these webs of mystification woven for the general public. It's impossible to provide illustrations that would even approach accuracy, let alone carry any conviction, without going well beyond the bounds of this discussion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Illustration, Woven, Citing

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eye, Important, Special

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all critical of the states he worships, and of power generally (except, of course, the power of enemies, which we must denounce, imitating the commissars who are his models, though he doesn't understand it).

  Noam Chomsky

  Memories, Enemy, Trying

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• The one thing I'm quite critical of Hillary Clinton for, and it obviously hurt her, is that at some level, the Clintons had to know that she was going to run for president. Why did they feel it necessary to make tens of millions of dollars with speaking engagements? They must have known that it would look grotesque. The word for it is "buckraking." It's beyond me. I don't understand it.

  David Remnick

  Running, Hurt, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Vacuums, American Universities

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Political, Understanding

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Needs, Rooms

  Source: advisor.tv

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• The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and mercy for those who needed help, etc. I wouldn't personally endorse everything they said, any more than I would for critics of power and its crimes today. But rather generally I think they played an honorable role - and suffered accordingly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Thinking, Justice

  Source: chomsky.info

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• [Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinker

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• I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Thinking, Psychics

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that empathy. It's one thing to attain it intellectually, but it's another thing to do something about it.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Empathy, Problem, Manifestation

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy is South African and therefore the engagement of the South African investor is also a critical part of this process.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Engagement, Investment, Economy

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.

  Vaclav Havel

  Rights, Suffering, Balance

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Spring, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Wall, Government

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm so critical, especially of the movies I do. If the movie flows and I buy it, that's important. Beyond it working, if I buy the character, especially if I'm close to the character.

  Wade Eastwood

  Character, Important, Flow

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• [The Theosophical Society] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they teach their courses, you only get a smidgen of stuff and you have to keep coming back every week. They won't do an overview. Because they're trying to bypass your conscious critical faculties by leaking the information slowly.

  Paul Laffoley

  Trying, Information, Stuff

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

  John Legend

  Beautiful, Powerful, Land

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you've got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there's no use even trying. You have to love it, and I do. You just hope it strikes a spark somewhere in the critical mass of public opinion and helps some people to resist further the seductions of political and corporate advertising.

  Bill Moyers

  Fighting, Nuts, Blue

  Source: progressive.org

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• While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff!

  Alexander Weinstein

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Teacher

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels.

  Murray Bookchin

  People, Enough, Admire

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• I'm not interested in scoring points or being over-critical of the US administration. I want to find the entry points to try and get it back on track so that the United States can get out of the present disastrous situation it's in, and back into being a constructive force for human rights in the world.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Track, Trying

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do highly productive work. That's it. I don't know why that can't be done except for the fact that I think that people mistrust their own ideals today. I don't think that they don't believe in them; I think they mistrust the viability of them. They're afraid to commit themselves to their ideals.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Thinking, Productive Work

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity groups in areas where they can have certain results, notable results - not move into areas of great resistance where they're almost certain to be crushed, defeated, demoralized.

  Murray Bookchin

  Moving, Together, Resistance

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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