Quotes About Criticism

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

Last year I spoke about Clean India and open defecation, it was criticised then but that has been the main point with which the government has touched the lives of the people.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

Trump's done nothing but be a great friend of Israel, and yet he's being tagged with anti-Semitism here. It doesn't make any intellectual sense.

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

The inferior put others down

I always see what's... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what's wrong. I never see what's right. It's not a recipe for happiness.