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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

John Gresham Machen

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

Lorna Luft

Dating

Criticism

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Jay Lerner

Criticism

Theater

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Milan Kundera

Accidents

Criticism

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

Lenny Kravitz

Criticism

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Billy Joel

Criticism

Praise