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George W. Bush will not offer one word of criticism for any president. Not Clinton. Not Obama.

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This is the kind of attitude that leads inexorably to totalitarianism. It is to be decried, particularly in a university environment where the search for truth necessitates that no belief be treated as sacred or above scrutiny.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Hillary Clinton is receiving criticism after telling a crowd to 'unlock their full potential,' because that line is commonly used by another possible candidate, Carly Fiorina. People said, 'You can't just steal someone's slogan like that!' And Hillary said, 'Yes we can!'

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.

How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer of imaginative work... I do try to make my critical studies imaginative and try to write them in ways that are more like literature than philosophy, but I have disappointed myself because I am still so wedded to criticism.

I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer unorthodox ways of doing double duty as literary criticism and as love letters to the power of literature per se.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.

I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.

I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism.

I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.

I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

I can't deal with criticism very well. I've already got it from one angle. I don't need it from anything else.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.