Quotes About Criticism

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in.

I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true likeness of the real society of today.

Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him of his love for the offspring of his own mind even before they were born.

I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy.

Las gentes me cortejan en la medida que no las moleste. Pero cuando pretendo servir a objetivos que no les convienen pasan immediatamente al insulto, mientras que los indiferentes se esconden detras de su cobardía

Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was before the crusade began.

It's good to be cynical, he said. That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all taught to respect and reverence- they don't deserve anything but cynicism.

To criticise something imperfect is always amusing, and maybe profitable in those cases where the imperfections can be remedies.