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Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community.

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

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.