Criticism Quote by Sidney Hook Download Open image “To silence criticism is to silence freedom.” — Sidney Hook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Criticism Freedom Liberty Silence
Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from… — Janet Scudder Copy Share Image
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent. — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
“Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Silence is not a reflection of cowardice but is often a necessary tool to prevent the proliferation of negative energy.” — Ranbir Parmar Copy Share Image
“Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. If our… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates. — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard. — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Judge a person not by his ability to make money but by his ability to retain it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Lots of relationships fail because we spend more time pointing out each other's mistakes and not enough time enjoying each other's company. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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