Quotes of: Critical-mass Keyword

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

Benito Mussolini

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

Douglas Feith

I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.

Maeve Binchy

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

Shepard Smith

I go to churches to pray, but I don't go to mass.

Andrea Corr

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.

Aulis Sallinen

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

Siobhan Davies

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Walter Jon Williams

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

Ryan McGinley

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

The Critic as Artist

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

Rosanna Arquette

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

As learnèd commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.

Jonathan Swift's on Poetry: A Rapsody--A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Lyrical and Critical Essays

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.

Principles of Literary Criticism (Routledge Classics)

Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills.

Voice of Reason

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

The Critic as Artist

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Paul de Man