Censure Quotes

• The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

  Demosthenes

  Way

  "The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors" by Everard Berkeley, (p. 34), 1853.

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• You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Fear, Understanding

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

  Juvenal

  Ravens, Censorship, Dove

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• The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Censorship, Given, Commendation

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• Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Pay, Literature

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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• He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Fear, Criticism, Genius

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.25

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• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sad, Courage, Praise

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.220, Random House

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• A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Men, Care

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.55

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• Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

  Gustav Mahler

  Hate, Hands, People

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• TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

  Bill Bixby

  Honesty, Tvs, Artistic

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.234

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• In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Respect, Drama, Self

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1912, Delphi Classics

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• I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Thanksgiving, Thank God, Ruins

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Defense, Obscurity

  "The Works of Joseph Addison".

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• No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Judgement, Knows

  Sir Thomas Browne (1736). “Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Or, the Christian Religion, as Professed by a Physician; Freed from Priest-craft and the Jargon of Schools”, p.84

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• Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

  Winston Churchill

  Praise, Deceitful

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• I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.

  Henry Hyde

  Thinking, Vote, Resolution

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• All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

  James Boswell

  Men, Self, Praise

  James Boswell (1820). “The life of Samuel Johnson”, p.656

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• We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Expression, Excess, Caricatures

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• They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

  William Penn

  Practice, Criticism, Stones

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.52

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• The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

  William Hazlitt

  Silence, Say Anything, Daring

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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• The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Justice, Criticism, Balance

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• Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them.

  Chico Xavier

  Mistake, Feet, Helping

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• I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

  Henry Hyde

  Bangs, Certainty, Discussion

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