But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume 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
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor 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
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
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
The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
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
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of… — Leo Tolstoy 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
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of… — Mary Parker Follett 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
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature. — Theodore Schroeder 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
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at… — William Shenstone 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
