Critique Quotes

"There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" "I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart." "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." "The critique of modernity has to recognize its ambiguous structure." "There is something very odd about the respect accorded to religion." "The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced" "I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. The type of epopees written in the Soviet Union, where they were agents of the Party, meant nothing to me." "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." "The fundamental problem with the human species is an excess." "Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them" "In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell" "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under" "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions"