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

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

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

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

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

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

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

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.

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.

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.

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

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

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

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

There’s backlash about everything I do.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

America is just downright mean.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.

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 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.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

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

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

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

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

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.

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.

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

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.

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