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“Earlier in the twentieth century some critics called fascism “capitalism with the gloves off,” meaning that fascism was pure capitalism without democratic rights and organizations.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Quote by -Henry James
The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.
Quote by -Henry James
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
Quote by -Henry James
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
Quote by -Henry James
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
Quote by -Henry James
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
Quote by -Henry James
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
Quote by -Henry James
“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
Quote by -Abraham Lincoln
“Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.”
Quote by -Vince Lombardi
I get criticized for taking roles in films like Ghost Rider 2, but if you look at my résumé, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
Quote by -Idris Elba
"I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world."
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone."
Quote by -Joseph Joubert
"Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive."
Quote by -Donald Henry Rumsfeld
"We reject any criticism, any allegations that our human rights efforts have diminished."
Quote by -Richard Boucher
"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."
Quote by -George Jean Nathan
"It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not."
Quote by -George Jean Nathan
"I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good."
Quote by -George Ivan Morrison
"I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people."
Quote by -Lee Scott
"When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.
Quote by -Kate Winslet
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
Quote by -Bill Gates
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem