Pervasive Quotes

138 quotes by 128 authors

In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses'… — Simone de Beauvoir
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive. — Kathy Acker
It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings… — Neal A. Maxwell
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in… — Warren Buffett
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky typesâ€¦ Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that… — Edward Snowden
The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world. — Judith Stacey
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror,… — Marcus Rediker
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a… — Herbert Croly
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in… — Neal A. Maxwell
Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental… — Kate Millett
What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect each one of… — Joan Mondale
Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as professional photographers when… — Marissa Mayer
This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. Itâ€™s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming… — Janet Mock
The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does,… — Ted Simon
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a… — Lewis Mumford
Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the… — Hakim Bey
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined.… — Caroline Knapp
One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of… — Nate Silver

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