"If it's very painful for you to criticize……" — Alice Miller
"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."
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65 Quotes by Alice Miller
Alice Miller has 65 quotes on this site.
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According…
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What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells…
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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people…
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Courage can be just as infectious as fear.
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People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents,…
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Empathy grows as we learn.
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Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as…
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The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
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Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the…
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People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had…
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Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is…
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The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never…
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Criticize the act, not the person.
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a…
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the…
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How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize…
— James Bovard
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If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.
— Eli Broad
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize…
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
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I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the…
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I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo…
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