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• The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.

  Susan McClary

  Symphony, Musical, Enlightenment

  "Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality". Book by Susan McClary, 1991.

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• The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Distinction, Threat

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Kids, Disrespect, Democracy

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 64, 1980.

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• The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

  Ang Lee

  Writing, Men, Views

  Interview with Karan Johar, www.hindustantimes.com. November 4, 2012.

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• The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Criticism, Pleasure, Fine Things

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• Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.

  Ziggy Marley

  Father, Kids, Son

  Source: collider.com

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• My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

  Taryn Simon

  Support, Political, Agendas

  Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• As far as the hate, it makes me laugh. Everybody is a critic. Every critic I've ever had, they weren't wrestlers. Every wrestler I've ever had critique me, they were always into my stuff or what I'm doing out there. For a non-wrestler, someone who doesn't even know how to lock up, and if we did lock up, they wouldn't know what to do, for them to critique any of us, it really does pop me.

  Roman Reigns

  Hate, Laughing, Doe

  "Roman Reigns Talks 'Royal Rumble,' Injury Return & Haters". Interview with Joshua Caudill, www.craveonline.com. January 22, 2015.

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• I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.

  Tom Robinson

  Thinking, Editors, Important

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• I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

  Tim Gunn

  Negative, Opinion, Honest

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• Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impregnated with ressentiment. The establishment of "criteria" for testing the correctness of opinions then becomes the most important task. Genuine and fruitful criticism judges all opinions with reference to the object itself. Ressentiment criticism, on the contrary, accepts no "object" that has not stood the test of criticism

  Max Scheler

  Thinking, Judging, Criticism

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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• Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for thinking (“freedom of the pen”)=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.

  Hannah

  Men, Thinking, Common Sense

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• A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

  Jay McInerney

  Fashion, America, Achievement

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• A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.

  Medard Boss

  Talking, Ideas, Effort

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• What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them. Perhaps what most typifies the Afropolitan consciousness is the refusal to oversimplify; the effort to understand what is ailing in Africa alongside the desire to honour what is wonderful, unique. Rather than essentialising the geographical entity, we seek to comprehend the cultural complexity; to honour the intellectual and spiritual legacy; and to sustain our parents’ cultures.

  Taiye Selasi

  Spiritual, Mean, Unique

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• Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

  Robert Motherwell

  Real, Intelligent, Culture

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• Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the concept, takes honest account of the conservative critiques it has provoked, but proposes that it can serve as a robust norm for European Union citizenship. This is a profound meditation with real importance for contemporary political society.

  Charles S. Maier

  Real, Long, Profound

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• Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next. The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled.

  Steve Elmendorf

  Lying, People, Deceit

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• We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

  Bell Hooks

  Media, White, Culture

  bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains (2017). “Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism”, p.66, Routledge

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• A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Matter, Kind

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984”, p.154, Routledge

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• So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Knowing, Long, Cynical

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