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

I don’t write policy for my government.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

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

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

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

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.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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

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

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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

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.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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.

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.

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.‘

Plato was a bore.

I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

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

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.

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.

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 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?

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.

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.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

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

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.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

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

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.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

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

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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

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

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

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

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

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