Everything that liberates our mind without at the same…

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the…

— John Calvin

If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it…

— William S. Burroughs

Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious…

— Fareed Zakaria

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself…

— Joseph Addison

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether…

— Roger Williams

Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence.

— Roger Scruton

“none of Dr. Copeland’s tips would cure someone suffering from pernicious anemia.”

— R. Scott Williams

A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement…

— Leon Trotsky

Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes…

— Pope Pius IX

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of…

— Milan Kundera

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into…

— Albert Einstein

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived…

— Gerry Spence

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

— Emma Goldman

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may…

— Richard Dawkins

The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine that they…

— George F. Richards