Critique Quotes

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

To criticize one's country is to do it a service and to pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing.

The Antichrist, Section 7

To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

The reason to do any barking - well, the reason for me - is that 'Three Billboards' feels so off about so many things. It's one of those movies that really do think they're saying something profound about human nature and injustice.

As for Marx, his economic value, apart from occasional … flashes of insight, is nil.

I don't listen to my songs. The only time I do it is when someone points out a flaw in the end product.

Evaluations, in essence, are … ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way.

My only weapon is the question.

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

With so much power, science will inevitably receive strong criticism. It comes with success. It’s entirely appropriate. Take it as a complement. And get over it.

I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.

You should be cautious when criticizing the liberalization of economic theory.

The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.