{"quotes":[{"text":"...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["critique","illusion","knowledge","limits","reason","self-knowledge"],"id":4072,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["capitalism","criticism","critique","hypocracy","ideologies","ideology","smartphones","technology"],"id":24846,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Imagine America as one house on a suburban lane. Years before he became a Jehovah's Witness, Prince knocked on America's door through his music. He came to the door holding a guitar and an umbrella while concealing a Bible. He flirted his way inside the door and told us he had a dirty mind and was controversial, and then he sat down in the living room on the good couch. And, when America's guard was down, because we thought we were having a conversation about sex, Prince eased out his Bible and said, 'Let me also tell you about my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.","author":"Touré","tags":["biography","critique","music","pop-culture","prince","reviews"],"id":42671,"author_id":"Tour%C3%A9"},{"text":"The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.","author":"Jean de La Bruyère","tags":["criticism","critique","happiness","pleasure"],"id":53060,"author_id":"Jean+de+La+Bruy%C3%A8re"},{"text":"He was a young man of savage \u0026 unexpected originality, a diseased genius \u0026 quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane \u0026 in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form \u0026 not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume \u0026 all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe.","author":"Rémy de Gourmont","tags":["critique","genius","lautreamont","maldoror","prodigy"],"id":58238,"author_id":"R%C3%A9my+de+Gourmont"},{"text":"I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["critic","criticism","critique","funny","witty"],"id":60023,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"The 'norm' for humanity is love.Brutality is an aberration.We are not sinners by nature.We learn to be bad.We are taught to stray from our good paths.We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.","author":"Jack D. Forbes","tags":["anti-civ","civilization","critique","humanity","inspirational","love","oppression"],"id":64762,"author_id":"Jack+D.+Forbes"},{"text":"There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political interests reside. Personally, I think the elites worry too much about that. We dumb working folk were clubbed into submission long ago, and now require only proper medication for our high levels of cholesterol, enough alcohol to keep the sludge moving through our arteries, and a 24/7 mind-numbing spectacle of titties, tabloid TV, and terrorist dramas. Throw in a couple of new flavours of XXL edible thongs, and you've got a nation of drowsing hippos who will never notice that our country has been looted, or even that we have become homeless ourselves.","author":"Joe Bageant","tags":["critique","health","media","politics","poverty","society"],"id":74964,"author_id":"Joe+Bageant"},{"text":"Rather than critique people, try admiring God’s creative handiwork.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["admiration","criticism","critique","critiquing-others","judging-others","positivity","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":75460,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Writing to please all readers is like cooking without seasoning ….","author":"Nanette L. Avery","tags":["critique"],"id":94435,"author_id":"Nanette+L.+Avery"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}