Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.
While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.