#censure

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#censure #character #criticism #freely #i

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition. ↗

— Joan Blades

#censure #clinton #congress #family #friends

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. ↗

— Demosthenes

#correct #get #ourselves #readiest #rid

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote. ↗

— Larry Craig

#any #articles #censure #express #feel

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. ↗

— Juvenal

#dove #pursues #raven

They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save a shocking fear of ridicule. ↗

— Stendhal

#peer-pressure #prose #public-censure #death

You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#before #censure #censured #democratic #election

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#drama #food #hatred #highest #highest order

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#afraid #censure #death #dread #fame

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty. ↗

— Bill Bixby

#both #carefully #censure #force #handled