Criticism Quotes - Page 15

If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter; who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen.

Realistically, I don't let any of criticisms get to me. I know who I am, I know what I am, I know what I'm capable of, and if these guys have faith in what I'm doing, as I have faith in what they're doing, nothing can stop me.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

Criticism polishes my mirror.