Rebuke Quotes

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.