Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People have a right to criticize.
If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.