Pernicious Quotes

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

— Juan Gabriel

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

— Samuel Johnson

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

— Wendy Lesser

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

— David Hume

Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

— Anonymous

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

— James Russell Lowell

“Failing to follow your dream is the most pernicious form of suicide.”

— Deborah L. Fruchey

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

— William Shakespeare

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace…

— David Hume

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

— Bertrand Russell

“Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious’.”

— Gary Lachman

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

— Aneurin Bevan

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

— Richard Steele

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

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we…

— Steven Pressfield

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring…

— Bertrand Russell

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

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

There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio…

— Tim Allen

You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind…

— Stephen King

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious…

— Shirley Hazzard

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have…

— Hosea Ballou

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting…

— Emma Goldman

Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any…

— Karen Marie Moning

But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is…

— Martin Luther

Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I…

— William Shakespeare

But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,…

— David Hume

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

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to…

— Mark Twain

The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax…

— Dick Morris

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)…

— Francis Bacon

“It is because of the Biblical curse on man's search for knowledge, which has so paralyzed his mind during the past ages,…

— Joseph Lewis

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

— Edward Abbey

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

— Mark Twain

Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.

— Henry VIII of England

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

— Anita Sarkeesian

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

— Joseph Addison

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

— Martin Van Buren