Ruling On Criticism
Who rules over you?
Known by his nom de plume Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state
QuotaBillsFreedom is from within. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is like oxygen. - Slavomir Rawicz
Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare
Silence is the wit of fools. - Anatole France
Impropriety is the soul of wit. - W Somerset Maugham
A pun is the lowest form of wit. - John Dennis
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard
When lost, freedom is difficult to regain. - Slavomir Rawicz
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. - Karl W.F. Schlegel
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene
The best road to progress is freedom's road. - John F Kennedy
Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. - Dwight D Eisenhower
Nothing is more important than independence and freedom. - Ho Chi Minh
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. - Malcolm X
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. - Robert Frost
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do. - Warwick Davis
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. - Andrew Goodman
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. - G K Chesterton
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Kemal Ataturk
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. - J Krishnamurti
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison
I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. - Will Durant
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem
Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. - Ambrose Bierce
Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine
The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist. - G K Chesterton
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch, and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. - Aldous Huxley
Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas