To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Sidney Hook
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  1. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  2. We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must... - Camille Paglia

  3. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. - Georgia OKeeffe

  4. The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. - Criss Jami

  5. The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

More Quotes By Sidney Hook
  1. Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

  2. Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

  3. Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

  4. Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

  5. To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

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