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Censure Definition

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Juvenal

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
Larry Craig

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
Gustav Mahler

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms

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.
Giacomo Casanova

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.
Mikhail Bakunin

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph Addison

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Demosthenes

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Bill Bixby

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.
Joan Blades

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci

You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.
Chris Matthews

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