Bonnie Hammer
Bonnie Hammer

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.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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.

Eric Schlosser
Eric Schlosser

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.

Gary Bauer
Gary Bauer

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn

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.

Hansika Motwani
Hansika Motwani

Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?

J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

John Thune
John Thune

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.

Joshua Jackson
Joshua Jackson

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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