Insidious Quotes

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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis
The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to… — Maya Angelou
The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original… — Murray Rothbard
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working… — Douglas MacArthur
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally… — Louis D. Brandeis
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental… — Brian Eno
How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally. — Albert Einstein
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters. — John Ratzenberger
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. — Seneca the Younger
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. — Erwin Chargaff
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden,… — Pope John Paul II
One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . . — Calvin Coolidge
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly… — George Washington
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. — George Washington
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. — Joseph Epstein
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and… — Scott Woods
Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns… — E.W. Jackson
I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm… — Jamie Lee Curtis
And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't… — Meg Ryan
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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