“I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels.” PeopleEnoughNovelConcernedCriticalAdmireImplications Author:Murray Bookchin
“I'm not interested in scoring points or being over-critical of the US administration. I want to find the entry points to try and get it back on track so that the United States can get out of the present disastrous situation it's in, and back into being a constructive force for human rights in the world.” WorldWantTryingHumansStatesForceUnitedSituationUnited StatesRightsHuman RightsTrackCriticalAdministrationNot InterestedConstructiveEntryBack On TrackScoring Points Author:Mary Robinson
“I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do highly productive work. That's it. I don't know why that can't be done except for the fact that I think that people mistrust their own ideals today. I don't think that they don't believe in them; I think they mistrust the viability of them. They're afraid to commit themselves to their ideals.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveDoneFactsTodayTogetherOrderMassIdealsDon't BelieveCriticalCommitProductiveAppropriateGiftedAnarchistMistrustCritical MassProductive Work Author:Murray Bookchin
“Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity groups in areas where they can have certain results, notable results - not move into areas of great resistance where they're almost certain to be crushed, defeated, demoralized.” ShouldTogetherMovingFormCertainResultsGroupsAreasAgreeCriticalGenuineResistanceDefeatedCrushedAnarchistNotableGet TogetherAffinityDemoralized Author:Murray Bookchin
“[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the settlements than the previous presidents.” WayPresidentPolicyTrumpIsraelCriticalBarackSettlementPresident Barack ObamaUs President Author:David Brooks
“I don't want to be overly critical about our military or our intelligence people, because it's a tough job. But neither should think be beating their breasts and saying what a wonderful job they did.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldJobsWonderfulMilitaryToughCriticalBreasts Author:Orrin Hatch
“Don't depend on acting as your sole source of income. Work nights, so you can have your days off to attend auditions. Have something to fall back on. That's what my mother taught me, and it's critical in Hollywood.” MotherNightFallActingTaughtSourceDependsHollywoodCriticalIncomeSoleAuditionsFall BackDays Off Author:Michael Clarke Duncan
“Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.” IfsYearsBodyCareYears AgoSevenCancerCriticalTake CareYour BodySeven Years Author:Eve Ensler
“If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.” IfsKnowsArtFightingRevolutionAnd LoveCriticalArt And Love Author:Eve Ensler
“Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at all times, and especially in these times! Our voices have never been so very critical.” NeedsDoeRememberPoliticalSocialVoiceCriticalAll TimeIsolationRooted Author:Lawrence English
“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” ThinkingWisdomGovernmentBeliefEnjoyOpinionComfortInvestingCriticalOur ThoughtsMy ThoughtsComfortingDiscomfortCritical ThinkingMake You ThinkHold FastPresidents DayThoughts And ThinkingProfiles In CourageJust A ThoughtInformed Opinions Author:John F. Kennedy
“Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.” WayLooksKindPersonsTodayChristianTerribleIslamCriticalTreatedJournalistIslamicPenaltiesDominantDeath PenaltyTerrible ThingsImprisonmentProminentSociety Today Author:Geert Wilders
“If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.” IfsMeanBookQualityCriticalReactionsTreachery Author:Peter David
“It's so critical that we make America once again the most attractive place in the world to start businesses, to build jobs, to grow the economy. And that's not going to happen by just hiring teachers.” WorldHappensJobsAmericaGrowsEconomyTeacherCriticalAttractiveHiringPlaces In The World Author:Mitt Romney
“I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.” ThinkingAmericaPoliticalIssuesSecurityReturnCriticalDebateNational SecurityPolitical Debates Author:John Bolton
“Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.” MindWellsKindSometimesWishCritical Author:Kim Nam-joon
“I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.” PeopleMindPositionCriticalConfusion Author:Kim Nam-joon
“It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting.” HelpingSpaceCompanyParticularMassUniqueExcitingCloudsCriticalCustomersGet UpFantasticRequirementsEmphasisMicrosoftCritical Mass Author:Bill Gates
“I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.” PeopleThinkingWorldTwoBeliefNumbersMassCriticalTinyTwo ThingsChanging The WorldMinoritiesSmarterAnother WorldVetsCritical Mass Author:Bill Ayers
“I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at really critical moments. That much I believe.” KnowsBelieveWellsBookMomentsSeemsI BelieveHurtTransformationCriticalCritical Moments Author:George Saunders
“I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters in prison or worse. I've seen my colleagues risk their lives and, with increasing frequency, lose their lives in their pursuit of the truth. We are not about to stop doing our jobs because yet another president is unhappy with what he reads or hears or sees on TV news. There is a reason the founders put freedom of the press in the very first amendment to the Constitution.” TryingFirstsCountryReasonJobsPresidentLosesLeaderRiskTvsNewsConstitutionPressesPrisonCriticalComplainingPursuitUnhappyThrowingAmendmentsFoundersReportersColleaguesFrequencyFirst AmendmentFreedom Of The PressTv News Author:Jonathan Karl
“Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which the scientists lived. A certain critical mass of "new findings" occurred, and bright people all over the world found out about it, and several read the tea leaves the same way.” PeopleWorldWayMadeCertainFoundAirFindingsMassIntellectualDiscoveryScientistInsightCriticalTeaEcologyThin AirCritical MassTea Leaves Author:John Medina
“The two critical questions to ask are: "Who is my customer?" and "What value am I adding?" Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.” TwoReasonValuesAsksAnswersHabitWorkersCriticalCustomersBad Habits Author:Bill Capodagli
“Love for coworkers, love for customers, love for the product and love for self. Walt Disney instilled all of these "loves" in his company. Each of these factors is critical to achieving success in any organization.” SelfCompanyAchieveProductsAnd LoveOrganizationCriticalCustomersFactorsWaltAchieving SuccessCoworker Author:Bill Capodagli
“Now obviously popularity isn't everything when it comes to stand up comedy, but the art form itself is better today than it ever has before. I think there are more great comics. I think the standard is higher. The critical analysis is a little harsher, but that is also good. Maybe people have a higher standard than before, maybe they are a little more judgmental, a little more brutal, that makes people work harder. It makes the stand up better.” PeopleThinkingLittlesArtTodayFormComedyHard WorkHigherStandardsHarderCriticalAnalysisBrutalPopularityWork HarderJudgmentalStand Up ComedyHigher StandardsCritical Analysis Author:Joe Rogan
“[Mikhail] Gorbachev said that he would agree to the unification of Germany, and even adherence of Germany to NATO, which was quite a concession, if NATO didn't move to East Germany. And [George] Bush and [James] Baker promised verbally, that's critical, verbally that NATO would not expand "one inch to the east," which meant East Germany. Nobody was talking about anything farther at the time. They would not expand one inch to the east. Now that was a verbal promise. It was never written. NATO immediately expanded to East Germany.” IfsSaidMovingTalkingWrittenPromiseAgreeCriticalEastGermanyInchesNatoBakersConcessionsUnificationAdherenceGorbachevEast Germany Author:Noam Chomsky
“If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.” IfsStatesMediaSorryCriticalPopulistCheerleaderScrutinize Author:Irvine Welsh
“We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although I'm a proud Democrat, I'm a prouder American. And I think all of us believe, regardless of our party affiliations, that this is a critical time, where we've got to solve big problems.” ThinkingBelieveProblemBigsCareTogetherEnergyPartyIssuesProudRepublicanSolutionsDemocratSolveCriticalPracticalsHealth CareBig ProblemsAffiliation Author:Barack Obama
“The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you're in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.” WorldShouldAgeYoungDecisionRoomsTechnologyGreaterStreetsWallExcitingCriticalChanging The WorldCeoYoung AgeCritical Decisions Author:Ken Moelis
“For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.” IdeasSelfBecomingFindingsHappeningsConceptsHumanismConnectedCriticalColonialism Author:Nigel Gibson
“I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsDifferentSelfAmericaLandSpecialFilledPassionateIsraelCorruptionCriticalFranceDifferent WaysArrogantDreadExistentialTerrifiedMaterialisticDaytimeNighttimeSelf ConfidentHedonisticPushy Author:Amos Oz
“Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.” PeopleNeedsWritingCasesEconomyEconomicMinesInspiredProductionsCriticalObsessionDustUselessDryTrendsScholarExpandingPromotingImperativesIdeologicalPrevailingSubjectionAnimus Author:David E. Cooper
“The demands of the economy, and more recently those of political correctness and the diktat against ever offending anyone, are not conducive to a classroom or university seminar climate in which genuinely free and critical reflection on how to live prospers.” PoliticalEconomyDemandReflectionClimateUniversityCriticalClassroomPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessOffendingSeminarsCritical Reflection Author:David E. Cooper
“Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have literally sold everything they have to sell. They have sold their honesty. They've sold their integrity. They've sold America down the river. They have sold everything in order to amass critical personal wealth.” AmericaOrderWealthHonestyIntegrityRiversBillsSellsClintonCriticalPersonal Wealth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building. As long as we remain in denial about this system, movement building will be impossible. Exposing youth in classrooms to the truth about this system and developing their critical capacities will, I believe, open the door to meaningful engagement and collective, inspired action.” BelieveLongTodayActionI BelieveImpossibleDoorsMovementYouthBuildingAmountMassCapacityInspiredCriticalMeaningfulConfusionDevelopingDenialCollectivesBarriersEngagementClassroomExposingIncarcerationMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander
“Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.” ThinkingImportantStrongPartyCritical Author:Hillary Clinton
“In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who do we really care about?” SeemsCareViewsMassExpectationsCriticalContraryErasIncarcerationMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander
“Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle East. But it's necessary to evade this by misrepresenting the convention, and I think maybe 100 percent of the media, or close to it, go along. But that's a critical issue. Actually, Syria's chemical weapons were developed largely as a deterrent to Israeli nuclear weapons. Also, not mentioned.” ThinkingIssuesMiddleMediaProduceWeaponsPercentIsraelCriticalEastStoresNuclearChemicalsConventionsMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsSyriaIsraeliDeterrentChemical Weapons Author:Noam Chomsky
“In the military we also learn principles of war which also work in a corporate setting: How do you concentrate as much of your force as possible on a critical point and take a risk elsewhere? In business that translates into focusing your investment on marketing, sales, or R&D, whichever will give you the greatest return.” GivingWarForcePrinciplesRiskMilitaryReturnInvestmentMarketingCriticalSettingSettingsCorporateElsewhereTranslate Author:Colin Powell
“Critical journalism has gone out of fashion, or rather, it has been bought out. And so, we have much less of it than we did during the Vietnam era, where there was very critical reporting on the Vietnam War and a lot of disagreement among the media. Now you find that the media are much more homogenous, converging because they all must cater to the same community of advertisers. It's sad to see.” Has BeensWarCommunityGoneMediaFashionCriticalJournalismErasVietnamDisagreementVietnam WarAdvertisers Author:Thomas Pogge
“At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the EU to destroy Syriza by splitting it. There is a German obstinacy and utter refusal to seriously consider an alternative. The reason isn't even a lack of money, because money swims around the EU coffers endlessly, and they could write off the debt tomorrow if they wanted. But they don't want to do so, because of the election of a left-wing government. They want to punish Syriza in public, to humiliate it so that this model doesn't go any further than Greece.” IfsWantWritingReasonMomentsGovernmentWantedLeftSpeakSituationTomorrowModelsElectionWingsCriticalDebtAlternativesSwimGreeceRefusalLeft WingHumiliateSplittingObstinacy Author:Tariq Ali
“I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well.” FeelsTryingWellsLittlesI CanSelfPastWeekHonestPrideInvolvedCriticalAgencyDocumentsPresidencyHypeMemos Author:Barack Obama
“Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].” ThinkingMenTwoDifferencesApproachCriticalDrawingPotDuplicate Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required for graduation. It was a good, sound, thorough, but completely biased evaluation of the Bible, and I was delighted with it, because it helped to document my doubts; it gave me a framework within which I could be critical.My independent study continued for 20 years after this. So I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view.” KnowsYearsWellsTwoSoundViewsClassStudyDoubtMiddleCollegeIndependentInstitutionsCriticalPoint Of ViewMiddle ClassTwo YearsDocumentsFrameworkDelightedProtestantsThoroughBible StudyBrethrenBiasedEvaluationOff To College Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of critical loyalty: Staying loyal to our countries by always being critically engaged in the name of the principles of justice, equality and human brotherhood. We should be the ethical and moral voice wherever we are by saying that, even though we understand economic and geo-strategic interests, we cannot accept a violation of these principles by any society.” ShouldHumansCountryValuesNamesVoiceInterestJusticeAcceptingMoralPrinciplesEconomicDutyMajorityWesternCriticalLoyaltyOur CountryEngagedStayingEthicalBrotherhoodLoyalViolationStrategicJustice Equality Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter.” PeopleI CanYouthReadyPrayingCriticalActiveAcceptedInvisibleCompromiseFormerLatterTrendsConstructive Author:Tariq Ramadan
“That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.” IfsMindFirstsSelfCareWatchesPercentCriticalRadicalShakesMaskSelf CareOxygenTheologicalSelf Talk Author:Anne Lamott
“Sleep is critical to me... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night. I also get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.” MindBodyNightEnergyHoursSleepWatchesPracticeMorningToo MuchMeditationMinutesTvsHealthyBedEatingDrinkingEightCriticalNineCupsSlow DownDisturbingMeditation PracticeInvigoratingEspressoFresh FoodEating HealthyDrinking Too Much Author:Jane Fonda
“The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself.” ThinkingWorldHelpingHumanityViewsTeachImagineStudentsCitizensArgumentComplicatedCriticalPoint Of ViewBe GoodCritical ThinkingGood Citizen Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you have no way of knowing until the reader reads the book. Actually, the critical response doesn't worry me. I've had very few reviews that have upset me.” PeopleWayBookWorryKnowingReaderResponseCriticalUpsetReviews Author:Robert Cormier