Critic Quotes
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt
American literary critic
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
Ludwig Quidde
German Politician
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Author
Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills.
Michael Dirda
Critic
I would be flattered and honored to be considered for any position where I could serve my country.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Former First Spouse of San Francisco
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Bell Hooks
American author
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
Ludwig Quidde
German Politician
Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.'
Elvis Mitchell
American film critic
Russia is a big polluter.
Jesse Watters
American commentator
I want people to become more comfortable with deeper looks at the things that they love. It doesn't mean that you have to stop loving them, it just means that you have a more complete understanding of them.
Lindsay Ellis
American author
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.
Ernest Hello
French writer
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Jerry Saltz
American art critic
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
Georg Brandes
Danish critic
A Democrat who had been JFK's Secretary of the Navy, Connally believed that as many as 20 million Democrats would cross over to vote for Nixon because George McGovern wasn't qualified to lead the nation, particularly because of his proposals for military cutbacks.
Mike Gallagher
United States Representative
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
Barbara Johnson
American literary critic
With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'
Charlie Brooker
Television presenter
I think the 'New York Times' would rather be offended than dead.
Jesse Watters
American commentator
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.
Henry Louis Gates
American literary critic
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
Henry Giroux
American-Canadian cultural critic
My parents always told my sister and me that if we wanted to, we could be doctors and lawyers, like my father and his brothers, like some of their women friends. Denise and I had art in our sights, though.
Margo Jefferson
American writer
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