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• The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

  Dalai Lama

  Pride, Helping Others, Attachment

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.135, Penguin Books India

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• Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Coaching, Defense

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• To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation.

  J. William Fulbright

  Country, Believe, Hero

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• Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Death, Adventure

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Parent, Criticism, Generations

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• The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.

  Ann Coulter

  Liars, Hypocrite, People

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.154, Crown Forum

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• Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Believe, Fall

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• If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Believe, Should, Written

  "Buzz Bissinger’s Trip". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2012.

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• Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.

  Walter Hilton

  Spiritual, Humility, Reality

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• If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy... But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Fall, Government

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• The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

  Eric Schlosser

  Food, Practice, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

  Brené Brown

  Judging, Choices, World

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• In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

  Bankei Yotaku

  Teacher, Buddhist, Teach

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• Art is to look at not to criticize.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Looks, Art Is

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• Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Fire, Agency, Political

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• We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Writing, Understanding

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• The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

  John Oliver Killens

  White, America, Justice

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• It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Animal, Government, Justice

  "My Own Story: Top Biography".

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• Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Revolution, Deny, Stagnation

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• I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Desire, Hints, May

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• Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.

  Miles Kington

  Sarcastic, Taste

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• What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we
  should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Death, Sweet

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• Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

  Criss Jami

  Intelligent, People, Genuine

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.20, Criss Jami

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• I couldn’t stand in front of any camera, and I couldn’t go to places where there were a lot of people. I thought people would criticize me if I smiled, or even if I just stayed still.

  Im Yoona

  People, Cameras, Snsd

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• Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.

  Hugo Chavez

  Israel, Done, Nazi

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