#critic

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#column #criticizing #had #i #i think

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#badge #cia #clarke #criticism #had

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#america #community #critical #critical role #member

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#around #close #criticism #fight #first

I have always said that whomever has limited preferences cannot be a critic, for the same reason some guy who only likes blondes cant be a jury in a beauty contest, for his idea of beauty is predefined and not based on dynamic reality. Thus, what people call 'preferences' are in fact exactly what makes them blind. For this reason being a writer also means you essentially cannot have the same markup as ordinary people, because getting rid of the precomposed is a too essential part of the whole dynamics of writing. ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#critics #beauty

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#appreciate #around #critically #democracy #essential

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. ↗

— William Shenstone

#every #good #includes #poet #reverse

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#critical #dancing #essentially #event #get

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#criticism #golden #literature #look #lovers

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due