#criticism

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors. ↗

— Robert W. Service

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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