Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism. — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. — Bjork Copy Share Image
People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them. — Franz Werfel Copy Share Image
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. — Balthus Copy Share Image
I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of… — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Look at who Trump is going out... Look at who one of his constituency groups is: white working people. Now, you might… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's fine for people to say, "If you can't stand the heat and if you can't stand the criticism, then just don't… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
When I teach criticism, the first thing I say, and this sometimes pisses off younger - I mean, students, is that, opinions… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
“When we criticize the suicidal for being selfish, we are actually criticizing them for not enduring their pain with grace and good… — David L. Conroy Copy Share Image
It's only when you leave the rugby bubble that you understand that negative criticism is not personal, it's reality because we don't… — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
The biggest prison you will likely ever live in is your fear of what other people think. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
“Everyone should experience a wrong accusation…if only to learn how not to be quick to accuse another.” — Chukuwuneta Oby Copy Share Image
My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction. — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Everyone deals with criticism in a different way. Some guys read it, some guys don't really listen to it, some guys try… — Simon Mignolet Copy Share Image
Don't let others put you down.When someone else feels the need to say something negative to you, it's their problem,not yours;just keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
I dislike those people who think just because their grown that they know more than the younger. That their some how above… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to… — Ryan Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
If you fail, you will be criticized, and if you succeed you will be criticized, you cant make everyone happy. So you… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image