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To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.
sri chinmoy— #14805, Part 37
Which not even critics criticise.
william cowper— Line 51. (Book IV, The Winter Evening)
As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?
margaret hughes— The Long Hop (1955)
Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.
edward norris kirk— P. 38. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticise ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.
christian d. larson— Chapter 7, p. 115–116
I had won notable victories on paper and the map with the aid of greaseproof pencils and a typewriter. In the course of this very campaign, if one may dignify the disaster thus, I had seen French generals create imaginary "masses of manoeuvre" with strokes of the crayon and dispose of hostile concentrations, that unahappily were on the ground as well as on the map, with sweeps of the eraser. Who was I to criticise them, hero as I was of a hundred "Chinagraph wars" of make-believe?
frederick e. morgan— Peace and War: A Soldier's Life (1961), p. 138
When they criticise the government when it tries to prevent violence and punish perpetrators of that violence we take the position that they can go hang.
robert mugabe— Remarks following a meeting with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete (15 March 2007), commenting on a violent clash between members of his party and the opposition MDC
An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.
henry clay trumbull— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, pg. 168)
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.
— Letter to Arthur Brisbane (April 25, 1917); reported in Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters (1946), vol. 6, p. 36.
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
— G. K. Chesterton, in Christendom in Dublin (1932), Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy.
No one can have greater respect for the independence of the legislative power than I:;: but legislation does not mean finance, criticism of the administration, or ninety-nine out of the hundred things with which in England the Parliament occupies itself. The legislature should legislate, i.c., construct grand laws on scientific principles of jurisprudence, but it must respect the independence of the Executive as it desires its own independence to be respected. It must not criticise the Government, and, as its legislative labours are essentially of a scientific kind, there can be no reason why its debates should be reported."
— Napoleon Bonaparte, to Sieves, quoted by Sir J. Seeley in "Introduction to Political Science," 216.
It is not fair to criticise every line and letter of a summing-up which has been delivered by a Judge in trying a case, especially when there is a somewhat imperfect record of it.
— Lord Hatherley, Prudential Assurance Co. v. Edmonds (1877), L. B. 2 App. Ca. 494.
You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book I, Epigram 91.
