37 Quotes About Critical-theory

The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.

Speak truth even if you be aloneFor truth hath no friend but itselfKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.

Critical theory can’t be presented as artfully as poetry or fiction!

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. [Entre l'amour et le vide-ordure automatique la jeunesse de tous les pays a fait son choix et préfère le vide-ordure.]

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.