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.

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.

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

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated – but haters are losers. It’s not good to feed this aspect. It’s more intelligent to be constructive.

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

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

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.

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

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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’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.‘

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.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

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

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.

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.

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.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

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.

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

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.

Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

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

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.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

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

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.