"I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive."
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"When someone criticizes you, it defines who they are, not who you are."
"You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it."
"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."
"You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.""
"Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes."
"Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct."
"What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed."
"If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them."
"If you’re going to criticize, you should propose."
"It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them."
"I don't criticize myself; I criticize my body."
"One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized"
"Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'"
"And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!"
"Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously."
"Be slow to criticize. And fast to APPRECIATE"
"We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us."
"One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same."