Quotes About Criticism

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

Und du hast keinen würdigen Empfang für uns vorbereitet, mit Musik, Wein und halbnackten Sklavinnen, die uns zu Diensten sind?« fragte Bjorn tadelnd.

When, for instance, we say that a literary work is good or bad, we are making a value judgment (...) Objective evidence for subjective preferences does not makes the value judgment itself objective, but merely objectifies the preference.

That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!

When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.

If the government thinks I am wrong for saying this, then let the government start doing its job.

I received no praise for the rescue of this girl, only criticism for "moving the troops about and stirring up the people" and wasting the radio station's time and money. I was shaken by these complaints. A young girl had been in danger and yet going to her rescue was seen as "exhausting the people and draining the treasury". Just what was a woman's life worth in China?

Envidiar es renegar de sí mismo, joven. Te vuelves triste y malvado y no ganas nada a cambio. Los únicos momentos que importan son los que nos producen alguna alegría. Lo demás es puro derroche. Si quieres escribir, escribe. Pero no es criticando el talento ajeno como se afianza el propio. El talento no es negociable.

No-one ever built a statue of a critic.

let's say, fairly limited in their skills. Joel Osteen. Kenneth Copeland. Paula White. I mean, really.

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge

Along with sharp criticism, America needed a class of writers that would embrace the country and give it "a national character, an identity" creating "a new moral American continent" without which the physical one was "a carcass, a bloat.

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.

Religionists want religion's placement on the pedestal of respect preserved by any means. But religion deserves no respect. Rather, it has earned scorn, ridicule, and in-your-face opposition, as have its trappings.

I find it disturbing that religious folk are always suggesting or even demanding we be respectful of religion. Even if we disagree, we are told we must be nice and respect religion's place as equal or superior to the secular, rational position. But giving reverence to religion gives it strength and protects it from the criticism it deserves.

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art