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.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

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.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

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.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

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.

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.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

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

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

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

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Money does not change people, people change.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

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.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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.

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

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

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.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

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.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

If you judge, investigate.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.