Criticism Quotes

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science-the science against which it had vainly struggled-the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

The only man in the world to have received the head of a nation naked.

Criticism in the body politic is like pain in the human body. It is not pleasant, but where would the body be without it?

Personally, I think Lloyd George a vulgar, chattering little cad.

We are paying eight millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

It's kind of limiting using your intellect to write songs like Brown Sugar, isn't it? The only thing I'm really interested in is comparative religion and ancient history.

I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

They're frauds, the whole goddamn hippie culture. They bitch about brainwashing from their parents and they do the same damn thing. I've never known one of those people who would tolerate any way of life but their own.

There is some blogging jerk out there who feels he can generalize his way to validity.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness.

A fucking game for grownups, an app you download where you go and collect as many hearts as possible, your behaviour dictates how many hearts you get.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

You just can't be calling us fakers and pretenders and non-creative and say we can't freestyle.

And did you ever stop to think that I'm old enough to go to war, but I ain't old enough to drink.

There's no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there's people starving. There's no way! There's no way that these people should own planes and there people don't have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you're rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms?

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.