Critique Quotes

• Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, Issues, Feminist

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• The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

  James Franco

  Hearing, Franco

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• If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

  Jose Canseco

  Our World, Looks, Ifs

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• I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

  Bill Maher

  Country, Patriotic, Thinking

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• Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

  Paula Abdul

  Positive, Real, Blow

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• Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Would Be, Literature

  "Athenaeum Fragments" by Friedrich Schlegel, #56 (B&S), 1798.

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• I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Way, Harder

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• There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

  Al Capp

  Book, World, Reason

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• Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

  Donald A. Norman

  Philosophy, Player, Apples

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• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Intuition, Blind

  Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer (1998). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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  Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Two, Awe And Wonder

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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• Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Revenge, Women

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• I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Pay, Right Now, Paid

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• I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

  Henry Flynt

  Artist, Intellectual, Events

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• Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

  Judith Butler

  Race, Class, Different

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• He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

  Theodor Adorno

  Running, Believe, Risk

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Ideas, Liberalism, Mere

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.276, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

  Paul Farmer

  Medicine, Depth, Height

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• For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Regret, Understanding, Ethics

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.408, A&C Black

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• We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Needs, Addresses, Antagonist

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.

  Michelle Richmond

  Character, Thinking, Stories

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• Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jesus, Powerful, Church

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Theology News Interview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.

  Michel Foucault

  Thinking, Practice, Criticism

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• If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

  Ed Stetzer

  Giving, Leader, Cynic

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• But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.

  John McCain

  Mother, Progress, Events

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