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.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

There’s backlash about everything I do.

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

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

Plato was a bore.

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.

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

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.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

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.

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.

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

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

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

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

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

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

It is easier to be critical than correct.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

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.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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.

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

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.

It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

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

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

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

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.

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

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 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?

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?‘

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

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.

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.

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.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

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.

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

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

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.