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The Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.
I've learned over time that every editor has told me when you're getting that much hate, you don't talk about it. You just kind of don't give it oxygen and let it go away. It's almost - not always, but almost - always the best policy.
The narcissism of student movements, new Left ideologues and the popular culture of the '60s generation invited a conservative backlash.
What have you got against people?"
Finn hated crowds. Thousands of people bumping and churning. "Too many opinions.
You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.
There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.
Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
The haters always scream the loudest.
Popular applause veers with the wind.
The public response to feminism has been ferociously defensive precisely because feminism touches such a deep nerve of truth and the denial that keeps us from it. If feminism were truly ridiculous, it would be ignored. But it isn't ridiculous, and so provokes a vigorous backlash.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.
Riots are the voices of the unheard.
Don't listen the Crowd, don't follow the crowd. It's so stupid that it repeats.
I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.
Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]
Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
People react not very wisely sometimes.
A silly row which got out of hand.
Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere
A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
For a long time, Conor had known his father and Liam followed a stricter-than-average code, that their hate shone a little brighter than most, but until today, he'd never seen so clearly what fools they were and how blinded they'd become in their intolerance.
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.
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Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.
We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.
This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.
You can't rage against the machine; rage is part of the machine.
Fan reactions are crazy sometimes.
Above all, beware the crowd! The crowd only feels; it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it dreams - but it never builds.
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back.
We are culturally predisposed to sheltering criticism from criticism; we have enshrined the iconoclast
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.
Riot is the language of the unheard.
How people react is going to be based on how you react.
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
A counter to a jab is a left hook. What's the counter to prejudice?
The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.
Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can't see them, then right when you walk by them, they're quiet.
Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.
Question your answers, Truth has no anger
So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot.
They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.
Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
What a few fans are trying to do is cause trouble.
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
suppressed hysteria.
The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.
When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'
If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
Anger clouded judgement.
Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.
Everyone gets criticized.
When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.
Angry words backfire upon the speaker.
Thrash her, thrash her! Why have you stopped? shouted voices in the crowd.
In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a crowd contagion.
I detect the activist returning with a vengence.
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.
Don't get me started on critics.
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
We have seen already how resistant public opinion is, firstly to comprehension of the new paradigm in which we have to operate; and secondly, to the rationale behind the decisions we have had to take.
Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end
So voluble a weapon is the tongue;
Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail
For every man has equal strength to rail.
Riot is the voice of the unheard.
Complainers detest each other.
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime.
It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.
I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me
This crowd is letting Kurt know that he sucks. Just in case he had forgotten.
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
The crowd is not us. It never is.Crowd-- Bill Buford