Top 1200 Unjust Criticism Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

You take the constructive criticism, because without the fans you would have no show.

This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction.

I am not disturbed by criticism or insults. It's all about having faith in yourself.

It's easy to hurl abuse at those awards ceremonies like the Oscars and all that, which we tend to do. We tend to vent our anger at things which we feel are unjust or undeserving. But when you're the recipient, it makes it a lot different.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle, transitory gust Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay With long repentance at a later day.

I am always pleasantly surprised by the criticism because I learn from it and sometimes shocked by it.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.

With success always comes criticism. I've been criticized every year of my life.

To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

When you work in TV you have to develop a thick skin, and I have certainly grown used to criticism.

For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.

I have never been sorry when I stood for what was right-even against severe criticism.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

I'm not here to win a popularity contest. I'm here to work and have a career. Let the haters hate. I'm ready for the criticism.

A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.