Criticism Quotes - Page 37

There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

I don't look at the criticism anymore. If somebody calls me fat, even in a vulnerable moment, I laugh to myself and think, I'm doing everything I can, so there's nothing I can do about it.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

Democracy is about criticism.

Opening things up not closing them off is my job. I'm doing that for my reader. You know, Bob Gottlieb always says, "Criticism is a service industry." I take that very seriously. I do the research so I can tell you interesting things. It's not condescending, it's educational.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.