Criticism Quotes

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing" "To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men doing." "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." "I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticized." "Behind every successful person lies a pack of haters." "Some people are just too stupid to understand what's written in the playbooks." "Criticism can bother you but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism that means you’re too safe" "The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing" "It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail." "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it" "The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work" "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you." "In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem." "The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic" "The better a work is the more it attracts criticism" "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." "To belittle, you have to be little" "Time is the only critic without ambition" "I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is."