“They wouldn’t criticize you if they didn’t feel threatened..”

— Ron English

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

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American artist 1959

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“We won’t have a president that threatens people with jail for just criticizing him”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

On the campaign trail for Joe Biden in [ Obama Hits Campaign Trail In South Florida, Criticizing Trump's Behavior As Worse Than Florida Man https://www.wlrn.org/2020-10-25/obama-hits-campaign-trail-in-south-florida-criticizing-trumps-behavior-as-worse-than-florida-man October 25, 2020
2020, October 2020

“Illegal aliens have destroyed some of the most critical monarch butterfly habitats in the world. I bet you didn’t know that.”

Matt Gaetz (1982) American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives

"Matt Gaetz’s Claim That Migrants Are Killing Monarch Butterflies Is Utter Bullsh*t" https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetzs-claim-that-migrants-are-killing-monarch-butterflies-is-utter-bullsht, The Daily Beast, 26 July 2022

“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You couldto explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

“Never felt so alive as you did after you came out of a battle in one piece. And if you were dead? You wouldn’t feel that…”

Steve Perry (1947) American writer

Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 32

“It didn’t pay very much, but it enabled me to get other jobs doing art criticism, which I didn’t want to do very much, but as so often when you exhibit reluctance to do something, people think you must be very good at it. If I had set out to be an art critic, I might never have succeeded.”

John Ashbery (1927–2017) poet from the United States

Source: The Paris Review (Issue 90, Winter 1983)

“The Seven Deadly Habits of External Control: Blaming, Criticizing, Complaining, Nagging, Threatening, Punishing, and Bribing”

William Glasser (1925–2013) American psychiatrist

Rewarding to Control
Unhappy Teenagers A Way for Parents and Teachers to Reach Them (2002)

“You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“Humans become violent when they feel their interest are threatened.”

Karl Schroeder book Ventus

Galas scowled. “They were never threatened! Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as ‘policy.’”
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 17 (p. 246)

“The man writes with such genuine passion for the books he's discussing. With so many critics you feel they're writing so people will say they're good critics.”

William Empson (1906–1984) English literary critic and poet

W. H. Auden, recorded in Alan Ansen (ed. Nicholas Jenkins) The Table Talk of W. H. Auden (London: Faber, 1991) p. 44.
Criticism

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