I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious’.” — Gary Lachman Copy Share Image
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his… — Edwin Meese Copy Share Image
The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The path to eternal life is not on a plateau. Rather, it is an incline, ever onward and upward. Hence, ever-increasing spiritual… — Keith K. Hilbig Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects. — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
That said, a lot of people buy products with "green" in the brand name, but make no attempt to understand what it… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
