Criticism Quotes

… religion is poison

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

I am grateful for even the sharpest criticism as long as it addresses the point.

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!

One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

America is great precisely because it is an open society, and an open society recognizes that nobody is the ultimate arbiter — and that we may be wrong at times, even if we are powerful. We must be open to criticism and respect divergent and different views and interests.

Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and they all stink.

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print.