Ruling On Criticism

Freedom is from within. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is like oxygen. - Slavomir Rawicz

Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare

When the age is in, the wit is out. - William Shakespeare

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb

Nothing is more important than independence and freedom. - Ho Chi Minh

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. - Robert Frost

Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. - William Hazlitt

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. - Chen Guangcheng

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 is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. - Buddha

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. - George Herbert

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias

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

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante

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

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

Being a critic is easy. Complaining is easy. If you want to make a difference - find a solution. - Unknown

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

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones

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

The trouble with many critics is that they tell you what should be in situations they never have been in themselves. - Unknown

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

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

When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical. - Richard Carlson

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. - John Keats

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity. - Martin Luther King Jr

A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. - Newt Gingrich

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy

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