Famous quotes by Critics

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"If one were to take the Bible seriously, one would go mad. But to take the Bible seriously, one must be already mad"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous, and menacing"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Fascism is not the result of dictatorship"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing"

Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic

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