Insidious Quotes · Page 2

Alzheimer's is such an insidious disease.

— Jim Nantz

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

— Albert Einstein

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

— Terence McKenna

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business…

— Alan Cooper

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

— Richard Whately

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

— Tom Robbins

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

— Kevin DeYoung

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

— Erwin Chargaff

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

— James Howard Kunstler

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

— Pope Pius XII

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of…

— Richard Dawkins

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that…

— Ian MacKaye

“Memories keep us stay alive as they gently cuddle us along the squirming roads of our lives and even warn us sometimes…

— Erik Pevernagie

Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be…

— Martin Rees

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your…

— Jimmy Reid

We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the…

— Robert Greene

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the…

— Pat Summerall

I feel like with the first 'Insidious' film we had a massive cache of stories and scares that we'd built up over…

— Leigh Whannell

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory…

— Anonymous

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

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good…

— Terry Goodkind

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

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

Within each of us there is the heart of a lion, the courage to simply be who & what we are regardless…

— Oriah Dreamer

It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

— George Washington

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

— Joseph Epstein

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

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of…

— Phillip Lopate

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

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

— Natalie Angier

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of…

— Franz Grillparzer

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons…

— John Ratzenberger

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

— Miroslav Volf

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more…

— Nat Hentoff

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

— Dodie Smith

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

— Calvin Coolidge

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are,…

— George H. W. Bush