The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't
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The effort to remold, in one's own life, the culture one has grown into is heavy with danger. The searcher is likely to be treated as a criminal or a madman, condemned and criticized by his own society, ridiculed, even persecuted. Even if he is more fortunate--even if he is simply ignored by others--he must begin his struggle as a cripple. For to consciously reject the generalized attitudes' of the parent society is to reject positive reference points that have helped him evaluate his actions and accomplishments.This is the price of freedom on the peripheries. We are able to free ourselves from our parent culture only by destroying parts of ourselves, much as an animal might escape the hunter's trap by gnawing off its own leg. But unlike the wounded animal, the detached person is doubly crippled; however he mutilates himself, he will never quite be free of the trap but will carry it with him in his new freedom.
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The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close.
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The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Matthew 7:1:
'Do not judge, or you too will be judged.'
(NIV)
DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.
(AMP)
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
(KJV)
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