"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."

Criticism, Freedom, Silence

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"He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals."

Henry Miller, American Author

Criticism, Science, Religion, Nationalism, Patriotism

"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public-an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Criticism, Media, Truth, Malice, Proof

"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Criticism, Poetry, Quality, Humor

"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Criticism, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Regret

"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Criticism, Love, Perception

"One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a FALSE PROMISE."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Criticism, Religion, Failure, Falsehood

"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

Henry Miller, American Author

Criticism, America, Chance, Old

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Criticism, Writing, Work

"The most destructive criticism is indifference."

Edgar Watson Howe, American Editor

Criticism, Indifference

"People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Criticism, Boldness, Sensitivity, People

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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."

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"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values."

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"Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present."

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"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."

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"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."

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"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."

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"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature."

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"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."

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"Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive."

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