Undermine Quotes
199 quotes by 169 authors
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We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked…
— David Wright
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Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those…
— Heather McHugh
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Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is underscored by Satan’s…
— Richard G. Scott
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By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the…
— Milton Friedman
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One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas…
— Robert Smithson
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Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re…
— Dalai Lama
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Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from…
— Thomas Sowell
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
— Hannah Arendt
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Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
— Henry Mintzberg
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Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what…
— Octavio Paz
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W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a…
— Samuel Gompers
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Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester…
— Lee Strobel
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Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere…
— Jim Talent
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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among…
— Tom Lantos
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And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion -…
— George Carey
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If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across…
— Dennis Cardoza
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In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act…
— Roy Barnes
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