I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
quote by Jean Rostand
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The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
quote by Antony Jay
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If government, or those in positions of power and authority, can silence criticism by the argument that such criticism might be misunderstood somewhere, there is an end to all criticism, and perhaps an end to our kind of political system. For men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
quote by Henry Steele Commager
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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.
quote by Mel Martinez
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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
quote by William Gilmore Simms
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
quote by Bainbridge Colby
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
quote by Billy Joel
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Judge
Judge is not here to decide
Who is winner and who is loser.
Judge is here to decide
Who is in right point.
No judge is empower to
Pronounced death sentences
No judge has got power
To give life to the lifeless.
Judge can not decide
The synonyms and antonyms
Judge can not say
The right source for right word.
Judge is not judge
So long as the judge is mortal
Judge is judge
If judge is eternal.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
quote by Walter Savage Landor
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I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
quote by Robert Teeter
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President Obama has embraced a partisan, polarizing strategy since day one when he chose hyper-partisan Rahm Emanuel to be his White House Chief of Staff.
quote by Rory Cooper
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It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
quote by Colin Powell
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It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
quote by Mary Kay Ash
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
quote by John Wooden
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
quote by Heinrich Heine
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
quote by Noel Coward
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I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise.
quote by Noel Coward
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham in Of Human Bondage (1915)
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
quote by Norman Vincent Peale
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