Criticize Government Quotes

#1. There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

Ron Paul

#2. I'm not good at the modern world.

Anthony Horowitz

#3. Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.

Edd Doerr

#4. If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

Michel Templet

#5. First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

Michael Mandelbaum

#6. It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#7. Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

Elif Safak

#8. The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

Morihei Ueshiba

#9. I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.

Giorgio Armani

#10. I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

Jimmy Carter

#11. The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

Michael Parenti

#12. In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

Travis Bradberry

#14. If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. In China we can criticize Darwin, but not the government; in America you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.

John C. Lennox

#16. You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#17. God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.

Desmond Morris

#19. When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston S. Churchill

#20. In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#21. I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

Paris Hilton

#22. You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

Billy Graham

#23. Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

Winston Churchill

#24. One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#25. When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

Shirin Ebadi

#26. They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Calvin Coolidge