Pernicious Quotes

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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. — Noam Chomsky
All forms of government are pernicious, including good government. — Edward Abbey
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. — Mary Wollstonecraft
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to… — Miguel de Cervantes
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting… — John Flavel
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden… — James Madison
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the… — Roger Brooke Taney
The path to eternal life is not on a plateau. Rather, it is an incline, ever onward and upward. Hence, ever-increasing spiritual understanding and energy… — Keith K. Hilbig
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder… — Ben Jonson
To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,… — Alexander Hamilton
There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made… — Alexander Hamilton
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near… — Edward Dahlberg
But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race,… — Martin Luther
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a… — Albert Einstein
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in… — Thucydides

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