#critic

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains. ↗

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. ↗

— David Suzuki

#blamed #considerations #critical #economic #failure

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead! ↗

— James Howard Kunstler

#clown #clowns #community #social-criticism #the-united-states

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me. ↗

— Frank Richard Stockton

#critics #fight #go #i #i think

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critics #dirty #films #foreign #lusty

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#criticism #employment #first #guide #itself

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#critics #doing #i #think #understand

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. ↗