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Dare to risk public criticism. -- Mary Kay Ash
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good. -- Branch Rickey
In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never. -- Anthony Daniels
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't. -- Charley Pride
... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control. -- Mary Barnett Gilson
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. -- Victoria Woodhull
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms. -- Louis MacNeice
I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants. -- Eugene Jarecki
The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet. -- Vint Cerf
For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money. -- Nicholas Kristof
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. -- Walter Benjamin
As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples. -- Wendy Davis
It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people. -- Gwen Stefani
Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public. -- Hillary Clinton
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society. -- Jimmy Carter
It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God. -- Judith Crist
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism. -- Napoleon Hill
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All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor. -- Samuel Johnson

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