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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as… — Mary Wollstonecraft
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia. — Aneurin Bevan
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness… — Arthur Balfour
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church.… — John Calvin
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. — Thabo Mbeki
Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second… — Unknown Author
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln
Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential. — Keith K. Hilbig
We all understand that the debasement of a nations coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is… — Virchand Gandhi
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive. — David Hume
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;… — David Hume
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered. — Ludwig von Mises
To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious...… — William Lloyd Garrison
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. — William Cowper
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society. — David Hume
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under… — Gerry Spence
I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual… — William Borah
Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell… — Carl Sagan
Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual. — Rolf Hochhuth
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry. — Robert Dale Owen
The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment… — Sam Vaknin
It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects. — Anita Sarkeesian
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should… — Toni Morrison

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