| "Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." »Henry Steele |
| "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "criticism comes easier than craftsmanship." »Zeuxis |
| "Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "criticism is prejudice made plausible." »H.L. Mencken |
| "I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise." »Noel Coward |
| "If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent." »Henry Commager |
| "We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause." »Jose Narosky |
| "We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism." »Frank A. Clark |
| "Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it." »Howard Mumford Jones |
| "There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism." »Robert Hutchins |
| "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger." »Franklin P. Jones |
| "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance." »Harold MacMillan |
| "Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter |
| "One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide." »Charles Horton Cooley |
| "I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses." »Johann Kepler |
| "Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism." »Michael Horton |
| "A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom." »Bernard De Voto |
| "There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics." »Richard Livingstone |
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