There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

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 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.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

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.

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

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

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

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

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

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

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.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

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

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

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.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

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.

America is just downright mean.

Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

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.

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.

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

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

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.

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.

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

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

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

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.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

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

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.

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.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

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

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

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

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

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

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.