Criticize Quotes - Page 8

• One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized

  Amit Abraham

  Doe, Can Do

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• We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

  Barack Obama

  President, Way, Administration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

  Charles Studd

  Home, Pride, Men

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• Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Think Of Me

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• [We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Motivation, Inspiration, Jealous

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• I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at how people use their language to articulate theories about something they call religion, to say, for example, that "in Islam religion and politics necessarily go together," or to insist that "violence has no place in religion," to universalize it.

  Talal Asad

  People, Islam, Together

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.

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• When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?

  Priscilla Presley

  Baby, Father, Vegas

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• Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.

  Justin Bieber

  Princess, Hey, Crowns

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• Do not criticize any other martial arts or speak ill of others, as it will surely come back to you. The mountain does not laugh at the river because it is lowly, nor does the river speak ill of the mountain because it can not move.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Moving, Rivers

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• Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Dying, Fairs, Not Fair

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• Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.

  Johannes Brahms

  May, Royal, Highness

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• When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

  Alan Kay

  Hate, Law, People

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• We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

  Ibn Warraq

  Winning, Islam, Criticism

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teacher, People, Giving

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

  Angela Davis

  People, Decent, Decent Life

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.

  Diane Dreher

  Attitude, People, Attention

  Diane Dreher (2000). “The Tao of Inner Peace: A Guide to Inner Peace”, Plume

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• Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Creativity, Ideas, Creating

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.204, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have a sense that your individual optimism and hard work will be rewarded. It exists outside of the U.S. as well as inside. People continue to come here because they want to improve their lives, they want to be able to support themselves and they want to live in freedom. A lot of people who criticize this country still send their children here to study.

  Madeleine Albright

  Dream, Country, Children

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• Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Family, Men, Cities

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• A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, People, Meals

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

  J. B. Priestley

  Husband, Women, Wife

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• A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!

  Jim Ferree

  Gratitude, Pyramids, People

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• I can criticize your religion all I want, and you can criticize mine. I don't like this whole climate of, 'You can't ever say anything bad about the group I'm in, cause every group is untouchable.' We can all criticize each other and engage in debate all we want.

  Kathy Griffin

  Say Anything, Climate, Groups

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• Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Military, Dark

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