Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."

[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]

Winston S. Churchill

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They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")

William Penn

Mots clés misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln misquote criticism helping-others volunteerism 1693



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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Susan Sontag

Mots clés intelligence art scholarship criticism art-criticism scholars interpretation critique



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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Herman Melville

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Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

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Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

Edward Dahlberg

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The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Mots clés words child memory criticism verbal-abuse



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When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.

William Logan

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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

Helen Keller

Mots clés reading books opinions literature criticism classics elitism snobbery



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