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Sidney Hook

"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."

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"But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages."

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"There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise."

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"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."

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"I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world."

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"DeadPool reminds me for some other films which are sci-fi, like Selflessness and Mr.Nobody....But the speech is awful it must be fixed!"

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"Act that way and slowly but surely I will fade away. All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will be shaved away completely - and I would end up nothing."

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"Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This completes the already strong case for allowing her to pass the rest of her natural life span as a private citizen."

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"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."

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"Even the slightest criticism of others is an impediment (hindrance) to Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan, Absolute Enlightenment). It also hinders Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), also hinders Samkit (Self-realization)."

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"Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."

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

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

Failure

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Sidney Hook
"Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments."

Respect

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

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Sidney Hook
"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."

Criticism

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

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

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

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Sidney Hook
"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."

Literature

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