Critique Quotes - Page 6

• I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Inward

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive assessments. It is not a matter for subjective judgment based on guesswork and intuition. Rather, these are matters that have to be considered seriously, relying on the best scientific understanding available, without abandoning sensible precautionary principles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Assessment, Understanding

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• It is possible to work across the aisle in Washington, but it's hard. And I think it's been made worse by the kind of 24-hour news cycle, the fact that everything is on TV before you can work things out quietly. I think it's the intensity of information that makes it feel more difficult to get things done. But I didn't leave with a bitter taste about the politics. The one thing that I would say is, I do think there is an unfortunate tendency to turn political differences, or policy differences, into critiques of one another's character or motives, and that's unfortunate.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Character, Thinking, Political

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• Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.

  Ross Douthat

  Country, Years, Community

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus left, religious conservatives versus secular liberal, believer versus atheist, binary. Too often, we just look at religion in America through that kind of either/or lens. I think it's much more complicated than that.

  Ross Douthat

  Religious, Atheist, Independent

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are not closed or bounded - which, politically, lays the ground for critiques of exclusivity. Second, places are not 'given' - they are always in open-ended process. They are in that sense 'events'. Third, they and their identity will always be contested (we could almost talk about local-level struggles for hegemony).

  Doreen Massey

  Struggle, Identity, Hegemony

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The fact that people of all colors have been ensnared by the drug war helps to preserve the system as a whole from serious critique, as it creates the impression - at a glance - that the war is being waged in an unbiased manner, even when nothing could be further from the truth.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Color, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I like people. Humanity. My family is a part of my work. They contribute throughout the process with critiques, advice, opinions, etc.

  Floyd Cooper

  People, Advice, Humanity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I really enjoyed judges critiques because I can always grow and improve from that. I don't think any of the judges are intimidating.

  Shirley Chung

  Thinking, Judging, Intimidating

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• If you just fight against everything willy-nilly, then the message is you're just gonna obstruct on anything. I would rather fight very, very hard on matters of fundamental principle and then have the critique be that Trump is violating the very foundations of America.

  Tim Kaine

  Fighting, America, Fundamentals

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Why do you do smoky makeup, why do you try to act pretty on broadcast, etc. For hip-hop where purity is important and masculinity plays a large part, I believe it's definitely a critique that could come out.

  Kim Nam-joon

  Believe, Makeup, Play

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and great books, as flawed as they might be, articulate a moral argument that the reader then carries forward. The critique to this model is, of course, to ask: Should a book be ever so perfect that you come out of it with complete moral agreement that can be sustained?

  George Saunders

  Book, Agreement, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to cherish and which ones to avoid; and how best to relate to other human beings. We differ in how conscious we are of these questions; how reflective we are about our own stances; whether we are aware of how these human virtues are threatened by critiques (philosophical, cultural) and by technologies (chiefly the digital media). A good educator should help us all to navigate our way in this tangled web of virtues.

  Howard Gardner

  Philosophical, Technology, Thinking

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

  Ira Sachs

  People, Economic History, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Feminism is something I think about more when I watch the film, Christine, rather than when I was actually doing it, to be honest with you. But I do think it functions as a sort of interesting feministic critique, because you are seeing a woman who's resolutely incapable of behaving like the kind of woman that's acceptable at the time. She doesn't know how to play the game by everyone else's rules, and it makes you realize that actually there were rules that were functioning for a woman to be a careerist.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, Interesting, Feminism

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

  Chloe Wise

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate in commodity culture and the fashion world. High art is a money-making vehicle. We're not making art in a vacuum. We're not shopping in the woods. These are all things that we do within the larger system of capitalism. For me to critique it, I'm also participating in it. That's obvious, I feel. In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

  Chloe Wise

  Fashion, Art, Criticism

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from a human rights context. But there's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals specifically, which says women are going to have their rights eroded by virtue of the fact of these courts are going to negotiate settlements and negotiate the dropping of criminal charges against men. There's not been any evidence of that taking place.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Men, Feminist, Human Rights

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the end, the thing that's important about free expression is that it's the right from which all other rights are derived. If you can't articulate ideas and if you can't articulate critiques of other peoples' ideas, then you're powerless. What always increases the power of an authoritarian regime is whether it can successfully prevent people from expressing themselves.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Important, Powerless

  Source: pen.org

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• Everything I've ever been a fan of, whether it's Star Wars or the New York Jets, I've also been very hard on at times. It's sort of like, I go to a Jets game, I want them to win, but the minute they fumble the ball, I go, "I f**king knew it! F**king Jets!" That's part of loving something. As long as you love it, you have carte blanche to critique it as well, of course. That's part of being a fan of anything.

  Damon Lindelof

  War, Winning, Long

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. April 23, 2017.

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• I want to be clear that when you mention the Republican critique of President Obama, that is not President-elect Trump's critique, right? So you have a real clash within the Republican Party, and I think within the Trump administration, about how to develop policy toward Russia.

  Michael McFaul

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Republican critique here is that Russia is in a weak situation, but has been emboldened by a weak response from the United States, that in Ukraine, that in other places, the United States has not stepped forward.

  Steve Inskeep

  Republican, Weak, Situation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've long been a fan of Adrian Piper's work. I find her performance pieces moving in their willingness to lean toward the absurd. Yet, there's a social critique in her interaction with people who may or may not have understood that the artist was present.

  Dawn Lundy Martin

  Moving, Artist, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to find a balance between positivity and negativity, celebration and critique in my work; I think there is room for both.

  Shepard Fairey

  Positivity, Thinking, Negativity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Some of the justifiable critiques has been by - been so successful in telling this story, you know, there's a danger of saying, oh, well, you know, we don't need to worry about this because that's absolutely not the case. What [Hans] Rosling is doing is showing us an overall global trend, which in a sense tells us how bad things were - doesn't mean to say the problems are gone, doesn't mean to say they're any less.

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Successful, Worry

  Source: www.npr.org

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