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.

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.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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.

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.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.

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.

America is just downright mean.

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

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

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.

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

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.‘

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

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.

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

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

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

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.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

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

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

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.