The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive. It's that we should lean toward greater tolerance for speech we dislike, and reserve our harshest penalties only for the worst offenders.
What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.
I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.
If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
The harshest criticism may be the best words you ever hear.
'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
