Criticize Quotes

• Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

  William Arthur Ward

  Love, Relationship, Leadership

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• When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Judging, Criticism

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• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Bullying, Funny Inspirational

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• To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

  Henry James

  Appreciate, Intellectual, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Criticize the act, not the person.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Persons

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

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  Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Integrity, Heart, Positivity

  "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". Book by Dale Carnegie, 1948.

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• No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.

  Zayn Malik

  Revenge, One Direction, People

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• Praise in public; criticize in private.

  Vince Lombardi

  Praise

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• To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Race, Irrational Fear, Ridiculous

  "Law to safeguard religion is no joke, warns Blackadder" by Sarah Hall and Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2004.

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• Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Independent, Rights, America

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of conscience”

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• People have a right to criticize.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  People

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• It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

  Donatella Versace

  Criticism, Would Be, Easy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

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• And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Thinking, Shapes, Reason Why

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• It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

  Livy

  Past, Errors, Easier

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 30,

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• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Unique, Doubt, Literature

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• Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Would Be, Literature

  "Athenaeum Fragments" by Friedrich Schlegel, #56 (B&S), 1798.

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• Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

  Ani DiFranco

  Criticism, Trying, Able

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• Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Time, Bad Ass, Judging

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• One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

  Mark Twain

  People, Criticism, Critics

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.

  Phil Simms

  Player, Mad, Guy

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• The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

  Alcee Hastings

  Flames, California, Judging

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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 country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Zero, Book

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