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Pernicious Quotes by David Hume
- It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous…
- .. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.
- 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;…
- 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.
More Pernicious Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — John Flavel
- The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero