Top 188 Criticize Quotes

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn’t be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right – at least in democracies.

You don’t criticize or critique your teammates if they’re having a hard time. You try to encourage them just like you hope that they’ll encourage you.

Some people criticize North Koreans and ask, ‘Are they stupid? How can they believe those ridiculous things?’ But I say, It doesn’t matter if you’re smart: if you were born in North Korea, you would be exactly like us. We don’t know what freedom is. We have never enjoyed it.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve the situation in the country and their life.

If you’re a black conservative and you criticize the black community, you’re an Uncle Tom. If you’re a white conservative and you criticize the black community, you’re somehow a racist.

In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it’s well-founded.

If you’ve spent any time on social media, you may have had the misfortune of coming up against a cowardly troll who hides behind a Twitter handle or Facebook page to criticize or attack you for any number of grievances, real or perceived.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public.

Obviously, I respect the expression of different artists. I do not judge or criticize the style of anyone.

It’s hard to criticize someone who’s hugely successful.

You know there’s nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

You can’t criticize geometry. It’s never wrong.

After I was elected as an MP, there were many who used to criticize me, but I still stood. This I have learnt from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is used to being criticized severally from his days in Gujarat.

In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

I am Sobralia’s biggest idol now; people love and support me a lot there. There are always some people to criticize you, but that’s okay – 99.9 percent of the people there support me.

I obviously can’t read, watch and listen to everything. But of the media members I follow, all are pro-LeBron – most of them passionately so – and most are extremely slow to criticize him and quick to give him a pass.

It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.

It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

I don’t happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that’s a bit of a stretch.

Democrats should never publicly criticize Obama.

There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They’re always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they’re looking for an error or to criticize. And it’s not conducive to good work.

There’s always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don’t know what they are talking about.

I’d like to think that, in the United States, you can criticize a company that makes hamburgers without having to worry about what might happen to you.

I take issue with those who criticize ‘The Biggest Loser‘ for pushing contestants too hard. The whole point is to push them hard. Otherwise, there’s no change.

A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I’m happy with myself if I’m a little heavier. I realized: ‘Why am I trying to conform to someone else’s idea of beauty?’ I think I’m beautiful either way.

Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.

When you objectively observe the most spiritual area to which modern people devote themselves, the religions, ask yourself if the basis of modern culture, particularly in religion, is not human self-interest. It is typical of modern sermons that the preacher criticizes people for their selfishness.

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

Nobody criticizes the ‘Mighty Ducks‘ trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

You’re an actor – people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you’re great in equal measure.

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He’s got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he’s got all the answers.

I’m the first one to always criticize myself, and I’m trying to find ways to get better.

You can’t criticize a coach until he fails to win with players he recruited.

I think that it’s very important that whoever is in office can trust the U.S. military to provide him with advice in private so that advice is not then used by somebody to try to criticize the president or try to influence the outcome.

People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We’ve got to be more positive.

I think there are some liberals who are extremely biased about Fox News and wish to shun it or wish to criticize any liberal who appears on Fox News. That, to me, is not a particularly liberal attitude.

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

When people criticize the computer generation, the high tech generation, and say they neglect the body – well, just walk through a college campus, and you’ll see the healthiest, most physically conscious and alert group of human beings I’ve ever met. So they’re not nerds at all.

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

There are people who will appreciate what I’ve done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it’s easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that’s important.

I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It’s not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing.

In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don’t belong to those groups or don’t associate with those people.

This is one thing every coach can take from Menotti. If you win the World Cup, no one can criticize you.

Opponents criticize Trump for not acting presidential enough; all the while, Obama created and perpetuates the presidential code to demean, disdain and diminish others in light of esteeming himself.

To criticize the attorney general for permitting justice to be done without regard to political party is very disturbing.

If people aren’t creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.

A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others’ positions, no matter how odious.

My daughter criticizes me constructively. She gives me good and honest feedback.

It’s scary to criticize Beyonce in this country. People take their Beyonce very seriously.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

And sometimes I’m criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that’s fine. I just don’t like it when it’s inaccurate.

Everyone wants to criticize my mechanics, but maybe I’ve got good mechanics that make the ball go up.

It’s difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That’s a job best left to critics.

I can’t criticize an athlete if they say they’re injured.

It’s not the journalists; it’s the critics that I can’t understand. I’ve never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else’s work.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

It’s always fair to criticize, to question, to engage about things like whitewashing and violence against women and choices of lack of diversity. All those things are really, really a good thing to talk about.

While Democrats may never adopt the policies of Ronald Reagan, they should follow his golden rule of politics closely. Reagan adamantly instructed his party members to never publicly criticize another Republican.

When I was a boy, my father used to criticize me for – it’s hard to translate – I guess you could say ‘mindless time.’ Thinking what to do. I need to be bored so I can be pushed into doing something.

To the extent that someone goes out to criticize another woman about hair, makeup, silliness like that – unless you’re talking about a makeup artist or something, really stop and think about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.

I learned from many people. I became a better wrestler thanks to my matches with Edge, with Christian, with Rey Mysterio, with John Cena – who, even though you, the fans, want to criticize him, John Cena is one of the best wrestlers of the universe.

Where Democrats have a real toehold to criticize Republicans is that families still feel very financially fragile. About 2 in 5 adults would struggle to come up with $400 in an emergency.

Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren’t even fans. They’re people with tastes similar to yours. They’re friends you haven‘t met yet.

You don’t criticize your employer.

I don’t want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry – directors and producers – are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don’t even know you. All of a sudden, you’re, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I’m going through.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Regardless of how I act, somebody is going to criticize me one way or the other.

Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition.

You have citizens who don’t understand how government works and they’re kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

For the people of Baltimore, I don’t criticize rioting, because I understand it. But after the fires die down, organize, strategize, and mobilize.

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they’re not all mean-spirited.

Generally I don’t care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.

When it comes to the younger generation, anything on the floor I’ll criticize – not playing hard, not doing this, fighting, not giving your all. Off the floor, you guys are on your own.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can’t change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it’s their money. They said it’s not their money; it’s my mother‘s money. Well that’s what’s wrong with the system.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

If people want to criticize me, that’s their issue.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

There are some people who just know how to criticize.

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

Honestly, I don’t listen to nobody else‘s music but my own. It’s kind of like sports to me. You don’t see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game – he just works on his own game. And that’s what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

You can condemn and criticize religion… all those things are fine, but you can’t mock and disrespect people.

You can’t escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can’t actually opt out of the culture that you’re in.

It’s OK to criticize Israeli policy.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Those who criticize Putin are not human: they are my personal enemies.

There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it’s getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.

People have a right to criticize.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I’ve written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

I love it when people criticize me for inquiring or commenting on someone’s marriage when I’m not married.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Every time there’s an election, people start to criticize China.

France has been mired in people’s minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to see only the darkest historical aspects.

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don’t like change. A bunch of people don’t like the Olympics now because we’ve added skateboarding… We’re modernizing the sport.

Aside from the likability factor, I can criticize Hillary‘s politics all day long, but I never question her intelligence. I have never doubted that she is a strong, capable, smart leader.

Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry.

You can criticize me. You can crucify me. You can love me. You can hate me. Just don’t make the mistake of calling me inauthentic, because you’d be a damn liar.

These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn’t there any middle path?

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can’t tolerate poets because – it isn’t that they mutter and criticize; it is that the poet does not accept the situation called the ‘perfect‘ condition of man – in other words, perfect in the materialistic sense.

People criticize you for trying new things. I think, ‘I’m new! I’m 22!’ I don’t know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I’m not releasing it yet. While I’m experimenting, I’ll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Krish is very simple and down-to-earth, loves me and respects my work as an actress, so much that he gets offended when people criticize my performances.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

Our freedom to criticize the government – as openly and brutally as we want to – serves as a vital check against unbridled government power and control.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.

We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.

When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn’t like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.’s, but you can’t deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.

They are damn good projects – excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there – God damn it!

My attitude is, if someone’s going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn’t hold me back and my teachers couldn’t criticize me. That’s how my career as a micro-sculptor began.

I’m definitely not the caliber player that LeBron is, but I find it funny how people can criticize him and the way he plays the game. So it’s pretty easy to criticize me if they are still able to criticize LeBron.

I just think – the Midwest, if you grow up there, you’re deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it’s usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, ‘Just criticize and don’t do anything and let’s win by default.’ That’s ridiculous.

Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there’s no question about it. And it’s very simple to understand why – half of all Latinos over 18 years of age were born outside the United States. It really makes no sense to attack them and criticize them if you want their vote.

When a man returned from the field and we’d look at the work, we’d criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought ‘Why are you bitter? You can’t just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called ‘generic‘ music when you’re not doing anything to challenge that.’

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else’s idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

Bhutto’s regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan‘s history, and her government did not allow the media freedoms she criticizes Musharraf for crushing.

I don’t say that I’m the best in the country, because I always criticize myself so hard. There are so many things I can say are wrong with my game, and someone can sit there and say, ‘Well no, this, this and this are good.’ I’m just hard on myself.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

No one is innocent, and people are allowed to criticize everyone.

Amongst Western intelligentsia, to criticize if not loathe American values is viewed as progressive and liberal, whilst to support brutal and intolerant religious and political ideologies is a hallmark of being enlightened.

This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person who pushes, criticizes, and challenges you to meet a standard of excellence you might not otherwise achieve.

When you criticize grown men, it’s a lot easier. They make millions of dollars. They should be able to handle it, especially if you do it in a truthful manner… I’m sure it stings, but my whole objective is to be honest.

I would never criticize a judge just because he or she presides in another state, including Alabama.

I never hand in a book until it’s completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He’s the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that’s fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Historians evaluating George W. Bush’s first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize him for his early reaction, for not returning at once to Washington, D.C.

Any time you criticize these young guys, they call you a hater. They never ask you if the criticism is fair or not.

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina‘s problems haven’t been solved, and Congress‘ response is to criticize Federal judges.

You can’t go do the Green New Deal, but Republicans can’t just criticize the ideas of Democrats without proposing an alternative.

I’m a good son, a good father, a good husband – I’ve been married to the same woman for 30 years. I’m a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, ‘You know, that’s part of history.’

Everyone loves to criticize Ticketmaster, but the real asset of Ticketmaster is that it’s the third-largest e-commerce site in America.

Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it’s important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their faith have done many important things. Martin Luther King Jr. – motivated by his faith – brought about an end to segregation in our country.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they’re doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers – to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

People are very ready to criticize other people’s accents. There’s no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it’s also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.

Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.

You can criticize ESPN for a lot of things, but one thing you have to give them credit for is their willingness to put women in nontraditional roles.

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person’s good qualities, I gather in that force.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn’t call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

Everyone can criticize me. I don’t listen to them.

If my own party workers criticize me, how will I reach out to people?

You’re more apt to criticize an NBA player than you are a college players. Some of these guys are freshmen. They are learning the game. The other guys have taken it to the biggest stage there is. That’s the NBA. So they are going to get more heat if they don’t perform.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have an unbelievably beautiful, well-known wife. And the people who criticize me don’t.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone’s work is a mentor‘s job.

I’m not here to criticize anyone.

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy – in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it’s not government’s role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.