But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some people in this nation believe that race is a significant factor in the constant attacks against President Obama. Others believe that… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
There's nothing effective against Trump. Trump is Trump. Trump is going to lie. Trump is going to act the way he's acting.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The President of the United States is a strong leader. Donald Trump is determined to move this country in the direction he… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
“When people criticize you, it’s not always for your actions but for what you represent. If they’re really criticizing you for your… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
Sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I believe passionately that games are an art form and that the power of our medium flows from our audience, who are… — Ray Muzyka Copy Share Image
“His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there’s none there, and… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as… — Evelyn Fox Keller Copy Share Image
“Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what we have attempted to do is… — George Deukmejian Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most pernicious strain of contemporary criticism says one thing before it says anything else, says it to whatever historical event… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary; it fulfils the same function as pain in the human body, it calls… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“No matter how many years go by, how many decades, how many centuries, there'll always be some people who'd call me a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter… — Sam Worthington Copy Share Image
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not naive and realise it doesn't make good commentary or sell newspapers if you only say nice things, and the time… — Nasser Hussain Copy Share Image
As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism.… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image