“The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education.” ChildrenBookPlayKidsCultureAttitudeCuttingCriticismCriticalMannersBudgetsReverseCartoonSupportiveChildren's Books Author:Jules Feiffer
“We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.” CultureViewsAuthorityInstrumentsIntelligenceCriticalRadicalInnocenceDeniedSkepticalRelevanceRepression Author:Susan Sontag
“The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.” SeemsFormCultureOpinionCriticsObstaclesCriticalChiefsCurseNonsenseFloodPrinted Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.” ThinkingTurnsCultureParentVoiceAbilityTeacherWho You AreCriticalTurn Off Author:Robert Greene
“The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.” ArtCulturePoliticsBeliefExistenceCriticalDisasterDisrespectDispensable Author:Twyla Tharp
“Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.” NeedsMindChildrenReasonFactsFeelingsCultureReligiousCommonElementsAdultsMental HealthCriticalDefenseCommon SensePsychologicalSkepticismSurvivingHelplessnessOccultJungGullibleInfatuatedSardonicPsychological Needs Author:Peter Gay
“Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.” NeedsMeanCultureNationsResponsibilityDemocracyGreaterInternetCitizensCriticalCollectivesFree SpeechCuspCollective Responsibility Author:Robert Neelly Bellah