Criticism in terms of expectations means democratic judgment over the suitability

of a subject for the intended purposes, as opposed to the authoritarian command

, which is meant as an absolute realization of the authority's will, thus not op
en for debate.

David Brinkley:
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks tha
t others throw at him or her.
Elbert Hubbard:
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticize
d, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and e
vey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard:
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elias Canetti:
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Franklin P. Jones:
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an
acquaintance, or a stranger.
H. L. Mencken:
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Henri Frederic Amiel:
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented wit
h ourselves.
Henry Steele Commager:
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dange
rous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism
subversive.
James Luther Adams:
Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.
John Gardner:
Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.
John Wooden:
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught
up in either one.
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from o
thers without thinking evil of them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is
always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties ar
ising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of a
ction and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier n
eeds. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Samuel Johnson:
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to
an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thin
g; but starving it is still worse.
Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man s
tumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs t
o the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat a
nd blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who k
nows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy
cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least f
ails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and t
imid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910