Reproach Quotes

“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.”
― Epictetus, Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses

“It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of his soul, refreshed by water.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

“Friends with spiteful hearts and thousand eyes of evil, mock not my slumbering glory. I just might be the next in line to gain access to the secret fount of good riches.”
― Darmie O-Lujon

“Revolted and offended, this child was fighting her mother in her head and did not even blink.”
― Laura Gentile, Within Paravent Walls

“Aš buvau tiek daug matęs savo gyvenime, jog žinojau, kad arba reikia prikaišioti sau viską, ką tik darai, arba nieko neprikaišiot.”
― Remarque Erich-Maria

“The young woman quoted Turgenev, "If you want to annoy an opponent thoroughly or even harm him, you reproach him with every defect or vice you are conscious of in yourself.”
― Jack Vance, Telek

“El reproche y la culpa solo sirven para aprisionarnos y para no dejarnos avanzar.”
― Miquel Reina, Luces en el Mar

“The worst things of Christ, His reproaches, His cross, are better than Egypt's treasures.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“He’s not like his brother and sister. No sense of accountability. His mother and I molded him into something useful, and he tried to throw it away as soon as he was out of the house.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror

“It is exceedingly disagreeable to me to learn that thou didst not, from folly, receive what I imparted.”
― Kisari Mohan Ganguli, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18

“How is a call to change named shame,
named penance, named chastisement?

How does one say

what if

without reproach?”
― Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation