Words matter. These are the best Censure Quotes from famous people such as Jonathan Swift, William Godwin, Milo Yiannopoulos, Demosthenes, Linda Colley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.
Perhaps what’s needed now is a bolder form of censure after all, because the Internet is not a universal human right. If people cannot be trusted to treat one another with respect, dignity and consideration, perhaps they deserve to have their online freedoms curtailed.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
For many on the Right, America is to be routinely celebrated because it stands for free enterprise and global power; for many on the Left, America merits perpetual suspicion and censure for the self-same reasons.
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.
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.
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
