Criticism Quotes - Page 36

If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies - represents people who are not the middle, not the upper middle educated class, there is a fear of seeming to be associated in any way with them, a social fear that lowers the class status of anyone who can be accused of somehow assisting Trump in any way, including any criticism of Hillary Clinton.

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

In a speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump responded to criticisms from Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out Graham's personal cellphone number. Graham knew something was up when he saw he had more than one missed call.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.

I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.

It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse.

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.