Criticism Quotes

"People are bloody ignorant apes." "The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism" "Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be but before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean" "I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes" "The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience." "The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music" "I don't think people listen to my stuff. They just listen to the bullshit." "It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s “mature” critics often are." "I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate." "I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it “If you are not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.”" "Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It’s also chicken shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously. Most of the cruelty in the world comes from people who are miserable with themselves." "The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery" "Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture." "Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse" "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel" "Theology is ignorance with wings." "Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst." "The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." "Theology is simply ignorance with wings." "There is no sin except stupidity"