Famous quotes by Critics

"Trash has given us an appetite for art"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats"

Northrop Frye, Critic

"One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts"

Paul de Man, Critic

"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place"

Paul de Man, Critic

"The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

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