#censure

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#censure #more #oneself #praise #salutary

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. ↗

— William Penn

#heart #help #right

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong. ↗

— Judy Blume

#censoring #censors #censorship #censure #first-amendment

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. ↗

— Lewis Hallam

#attended #censured #consequence #expedition #fatal

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

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

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

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

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#censure #eminent #man #pays #public