Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Let's move forward to try to address the most egregious and outrageous corrupting aspect of campaigns in America today and that is… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for… — Gerry Spence 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
Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. — Homer 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
Theological error is the most pernicious of errors; it strikes at man's center and separates him from his Creator and Redeemer. God… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s,… — David Robertson Copy Share Image
The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image