Ruling On Criticism

A pun is the lowest form of wit. - John Dennis

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

You have a ready wit. Let me know when it's ready. - Henny Youngman

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. - Malcolm X

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Francis Bacon

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see. - Leonard Nimoy

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. - Gerald F Lieberman

Drama Critic: A person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. - Wilson Mizner

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. - Winston Churchill

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. - William Glasser

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. - Ambrose Bierce

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. - Thornton Wilder

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. - Rollo May

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. - Tyne Daly

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. - Pearl S Buck

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato

Doing and saying the right thing are not sufficient. Doing the right thing in the right way and with the person's comfort in mind is critical. - Ravi Zacharias

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor Frankl