“The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.” DifferentIndividualFiguresShadowCriticismPraiseLandscapeLackingFadingCriticism Of Others Author:Richard Bode
“Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.” MenPoliticalIndividualJusticeKingsIntegrityPerceptionLowsCriticismManagementClimateCongressListsDepartmentApologyAttackingContributingChuck Author:Alberto Gonzales
“People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.” PeopleShouldArtLawLiteratureIndividualPrinciplesSpecialCriticismSpeciesContraryJudgedCompositionTemperamentNature And Art Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.” MenKindPersonsPassionIndividualHistoryGroupsCriticismCriticalFacultyKillersIdentifyingResonanceDialect Author:Arthur Koestler
“Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.” IfsFactsRealityIndividualSocialPrinciplesPracticeObjectsCriticismMethodFundamentalsSociologyDomainBasic PrinciplesSociological Author:Emile Durkheim
“Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.” ArtArtistIndividualJudgingAppreciateCriticismGenreOpen MindedConnoisseurPedantsIndividual Work Author:Franz Grillparzer