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“Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.”

Persons Animal Subjects Creatures Criticism Pigs Hunters Deer Supermarkets Ham Venison

Author:Peter Singer

“I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the subject - and the "how." Most attention goes to the "what," but it's the "how" that's the important part - how something is brought into being.”

Thinking Years Art Important Lasts Attention Happened Subjects Criticism Confusion

Author:Joe Bradley

“The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.”

Justice Subjects Balance Criticism Praise Method Critics Discrimination Censure

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.”

Learning Subjects Events Judging Criticism Performances Critics Sincerely

Book:Memoirs of My Life: Edited from the Manuscripts by Georges A. Bonnard

Source: Memoirs of My Life: Edited from the Manuscripts by Georges A. Bonnard

“In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.”

People Age Subjects Authority Behavior Criticism Democratic

Author:Anthony Daniels

“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born.”

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.”

Men Writing Lost Given Wise Subjects Dog Weakness Criticism Luck Mad Lips Sensuality Immortal Suspicion Sheer Strokes August Inhibitions Mutton

Author:Rebecca West

“Anybody who is a professional athlete who has a social media account on any of the networks, when they sign up for that account, they subject themselves to all of the criticisms and all of the praises that may or may not be out there. So you can't get on social media and complain about the people because that's what you know you're dealing with. You have to hear it. You don't have to respond. Me personally, I don't respond to the negativity. It's gonna be there. I read it. It keeps me grounded.”

People Knows May Social Subjects Media Criticism Accounts Praise Athlete Social Media Complaining Negativity Grounded Professional Athlete

Author:George Wilson

“One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.”

“The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.”

“I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if there is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.”

“If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.”

Ifs Men Subjects Conversation Criticism

Author:Immanuel Kant