Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I’m sure it’s illegal. It’s also an effort to undermine free speech.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power… because it’s obvious that it’s them I’m criticizing, but they can’t show that in front of the cameras. It’s quite funny sometimes.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‚sense of utter irresponsibility‘ shown by the demonstrators.

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.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

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

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Plato was a bore.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

What ‚multiculturalism‘ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Especially when you’re at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they’re doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it’s the way I choose to bet.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

I don’t think it’s a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef’s a fat pig.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.