Critique Quotes

"The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic" "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry" "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death" "We're so self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We're gonna save the fucking planet?" "The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it" "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" "I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart." "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." "The critique of modernity has to recognize its ambiguous structure." "There is something very odd about the respect accorded to religion." "The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced" "I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. The type of epopees written in the Soviet Union, where they were agents of the Party, meant nothing to me." "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." "The fundamental problem with the human species is an excess." "Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them"