There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
~ Scott Adams - [Critics and Criticism]

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
~ Joseph Addison - [Critics and Criticism]

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
~ Theodor W. Adorno - [Critics and Criticism]

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
~ Leo Aikman - [Critics and Criticism]

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
~ Nelson Algren - [Critics and Criticism]

Criticism should be a casual conversation.
~ W. H. Auden - [Critics and Criticism]

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
~ W. H. Auden - [Critics and Criticism]

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
~ Charles Barkley - [Critics and Criticism]

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
~ Henry Kissinger - [Crisis]

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Crisis]