Quotes About Criticism

Patience graciously, compassionately and with understanding, judges the faults of others without unjust criticism.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

New levels bring new devils, more favours means more haters

You know, nowadays, if you step out at all into any area of public controversy, you're going to get a bucket of something unpleasant poured over you, so you just get used to that.

But what ultimately made Yates the scourge of copy editors was his simple aversion to criticism; any emendation in his manuscript, be it a single semicolon, would cause dark alcoholic brooding, which would finally erupt in long, hectoring, semicoherent phone calls.

When Christians criticize, carp, and complain but offer no alternatives, the world rolls its eyes, snickers, and moves on. It is really only when we offer a 'more excellent way' that we command or deserve much attention.

In many ways, the cause of Christ is hurt most, not when it is vigorously denounced and fought against, but when it is laughed at and not taken seriously.

He's [G.H.W. Bush] never had to do a day's work in his life.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

board as a whole, there is a particular need to learn how to be comfortable with being constructively critical

I made so many B pictures I began to get fan mail from hornets...and for me that was an improvement.

Failure is when you give your enemies the confirmation, they were right all along to have you in their shit list

In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

The only criticism any one has any business making against Congress is that it's too good for some of the men we send there. Congress is our great virtue, understand; the congressmen are our fault.

Die Künste, die den Müll der Welt zu spiegeln vorgeben, vermehren ihn nur.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

Unmerited compliments are the keenest reproaches.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

The first hint of what is to come occurs near the end of Luther's obscurity. In September 1517 the dutiful Johann Rhau-Grunenberg publishes a one-page broadsheet by Luther with a boring title: A Disputation against Scholastic Theology. In his broadsheet, Luther ironically lists concise propositions to be argued over—a central practice of scholasticism—in order to criticize scholasticism itself, sort of like a poet writing a poem to criticize poetry.

and demanded ransom.22 Some angry Americans called for outright war. Others, such as President John Adams, thought the new nation was no match for the French. Fearing that public debate would fatally undermine the fledgling government, Adams sought to quell the discord by signing a set of four laws that became known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. These acts allowed the government to imprison and deport "dangerous" foreigners and made it a crime to criticize the government.23

Wilde was not a fan of pundits. They came on television to either confirm your narrative or piss you off, and either way, that wasn't healthy for anyone.