#criticism

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#literary-criticism #pornography #religion #sex #religion

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#brave #criticism #drive #fool #get

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#conditions #criticism #fixed #laws #life

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#criticism #discipline #existing #get #must

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism. ↗

— Halle Berry

#criticism #movie #out #put #scrutiny

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else? ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#because #criticism #else #everyone #first

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#criticism #nothing #say

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#become #child #criticism #important #important tools

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#dynamics #fact #getting #his #left

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. ↗