Censure

Censure is a process by which a reprimand is given to a person by an authority.

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

• Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them to praise which deceives them.
  • François de La Rochefoucauld

• The villain's censure is extorted praise.
  • Alexander Pope

• To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the others.
  • Diogenes