Common Quote by Noel Coward

Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump.…

— Martha Beck

Bolshevism was a mind-set, an idiosyncratic culture with an intolerant paranoid wordview obsessed with abstruse Marxist ideology.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Criticism is the price of ambition.

— Robin Sharma

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

— George William Curtis

The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

— Robert Moses

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

— Eugene Delacroix

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is…

— Carl Jung

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

— Susan Forward

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve

— Tariq Ramadan