Top 66 Critique Quotes

The term ‘cyberutopian’ tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

For me, honest critique is not all about your feelings and your ear. Honest critique is sitting down with an album that you may not put on in your spare time, and really digging into that album, so you can talk about the beat selection.

I watch a lot of myself, just to critique myself.

History’s lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists’ original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx’s Capital.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

For me, having played the game of football, I look at it through a much different lens. I don’t look at it from a fan’s perspective. I’m always trying to analyze and critique things when I’m watching sporting events. That’s why I never have the sound on.

I wouldn’t be the type of person to critique anybody. I’ve got to look at myself first, to be a better person.

I’m not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

If you look at our world, it’s a world of critique.

I remember the first couple of years when I was coming up through the ranks, some of the old-timers would take me aside after the match and critique me.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we’re not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Critique, feedback, reaction to one’s work or the way they have presented it, regardless of intention, is a gift.

I don’t want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.

I think as you get older, you realize there’s always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It’s less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it’s more about challenging myself to keep this level up.

If I am popular across the board, from teenagers to pensioners, it’s not because I’m trying to be family-orientated, it’s because my mum vets all my shows! I always get a critique from her and she’s very harsh.

I don’t want to critique an apology. An apology is an apology.

I think that you need to balance a critique of feminine, patriarchal beauty ideals while simultaneously understanding how they can make you safe, and they can make you feel safe, and they can open up certain doors for you that would have been closed.

Whether you chose a passive-aggressive husband, workaholic wife, or life of single motherhood, we are all officially allowed – and uniquely qualified – to critique our own life experience. Please don’t pretend you’re living mine.

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other’s art – I just found it so useless.

I’m sick of people who supported Trump saying, ‘Get over it. You lost.’ That’s not how America works. We get to critique him the same way they constantly fought Obama. As long as I have a platform, I will continue to speak up because it’s my responsibility.

As an NFL analyst, my job was to watch countless hours of game film and critique NFL coaches and that’s what I’ve been doing the last 10 years. And there are coaches that I question in the NFL, and at other big collegiate institutions.

Every time I’d get a critique or some redirection, I’d always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there’s a talking point.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

I’ve run as a Democrat, but I was not a Democrat. And when I ran as a Republican, I was not a Republican. I was just utilizing the New Hampshire primary as a vehicle to put forward my satirical critique of the system.

The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: ‘Don Quixote’ contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don’t have the discipline to write what we would term as critique – it’s really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That’s my view.

Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?

The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story… will tell them why they shouldn’t.

Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

I don’t think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop’s ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.

I come from hip-hop – meaning that I don’t mind if you come at me. In fact, I prefer it. But I prefer that you come at the show with credible critique.

I don’t tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there’s nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don’t have anything to offer.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn’t be doing anything meaningful.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven’t seen its heights but because I’ve seen its depths.

Though there are plenty of reasons to critique U.S. foreign policy and the way in which the U.S. military enacts it, serving your country has long been a way for economically marginalized Americans to get an economic step up – and could be for trans people as well.

I’m not going to critique every utterance of the president.

When I come home and have a new song I’ve written, she gives me an honest critique. If my wife likes it, I know I have something.

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.

I’ve been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the ‘Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,’ for example, where, after the famous line about religion being ‘the opium of the people,’ he goes on to call it ‘the heart of a heartless world.’

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

I always critique myself but I’m realistic – I know I can do better but I’m never that hard on myself, either.

Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells’ ‘The War of the Worlds’ wasn’t about a Martian invasion – it was a critique of British colonialism, and… ‘The Time Machine’ is really an indictment of the British class system.

You don’t criticize or critique your teammates if they’re having a hard time. You try to encourage them just like you hope that they’ll encourage you.

I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.