Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The…

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

— Max Anders

The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.

— Mohammed Hanif

The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty…

— Alan Stern

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at…

— Junot Diaz

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

— Seamus Heaney

“One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.”

— Seth D

The way to stimulate and provoke others unto good works is to strive to outrun them in the race. The way to rebuke the…

— Anonymous

Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the…

— Mary McCarthy

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's…

— John Milton

He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does…

— John Climacus

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who…

— Gautama Buddha

People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines…

— Jim Cymbala

If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

England expects every man to do his duty

— Horatio Nelson