confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder — Cornel West Copy Share Image
History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. — George Washington Copy Share Image
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes. — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
The first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
When I directed the third 'Insidious' film I loved it so much that I decided this is what I want to do… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in… — William Banting Copy Share Image
The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door"… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is… — Anne Wilkes Tucker Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Within each of us there is the heart of a lion, the courage to simply be who & what we are regardless… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and… — Edward Bates Copy Share Image
What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs. — Stuart Bowen Copy Share Image
Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. — George Washington Copy Share Image
