Criticize Quotes - Page 33

• It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

  George Harrison

  Politics, Easier

  Song: See Yourself

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• You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Ideas, Citizens

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• I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

  Mason Cooley

  Faults, Ashamed

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• Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

  Ibn Hazm

  Light, Care, Faults

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• The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Prayer, Answers, Venture

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• [Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.

  Harold Wilson

  Science, Government, Giving

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• Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Lying, Unique, Men

  Ruth Nanda Anshen (1971). “Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function”, Associated Faculty PressInc

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• I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Careers, Choices, Looks

  "12 Movie Stars Who Experienced Career Resurrections". www.indiewire.com. October 31, 2013.

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• If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Enemy, Adages, You Choose

  Song: You're No Different

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• In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

  Karl Marx

  Morning, Work, Mind

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, Wind

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• Whenever we criticize ourselves, we compound the issue.

  Jude Bijou

  Issues, Compounds

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• It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'

  Bernard Lazare

  Biblical, Critical Analysis, Mind

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• Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

  Joshua Jackson

  Ducks, Trilogies, Get Away

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Economy, Know How, Knows

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Happy Wednesday! Practice compassion. Lift others. Learn to encourage rather than criticize. You'll feel better when you help others feel better.

  Tracey Edmonds

  Feel Better, Helping Others, Compassion

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• They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

  Nhat Hanh

  Silence, Criticism, World

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• Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Age, Generations, Middle

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• A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, People, Band

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• The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Reading, Criticism, Body

  "Mr. Robert Montgomery's Poems" by T.B. Macaulay, 1830.

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• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, War, Ideas

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2006.

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• If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Odds, Criticism, Genius

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• ... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Sex, Opportunity, Men

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• God forbid I should be the last one to criticize, but I think may be Howard Dean has a bit of a problem because earlier today during a debate in New Hampshire, he bit off Joe Lieberman's ear.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Ears, May

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• Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Night

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