Critique Quotes

"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend" "Religion is the opium of the masses." "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening but this wasn't it" "Religion is the opium of the people." "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." "To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem." "We live in a world where mediocrity is often rewarded." "The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right" "Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest" "Education is a system of imposed ignorance." "If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out?" "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep" "She's a great genius for looking over other people's shoulders and detecting the faults they would fain conceal" "Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion " "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"