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.

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

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.

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

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

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

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

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

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.

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

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

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

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.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

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

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.

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

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‚indoctrination‘, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

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.

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

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

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

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

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.

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.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

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

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

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

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.