Undermined Quotes

68 quotes by 65 authors

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues. — Ken Livingstone
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public… — Terry Eagleton
Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political… — Jo Ann Emerson
An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those… — George Papandreou
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic… — Graham Joyce
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels… — Cornel West
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through… — Victoria Finlay
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social… — Stockwell Day
The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs… — Helen Mirren
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does… — Michelle Obama
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. — Katherine Anne Porter
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed… — George Soros
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where… — Albert Camus
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained. — Daniel Kahneman
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of… — Carl Jung
It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the… — Philip Pullman
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It… — Stewart Udall
Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes. — Vladimir Putin
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical… — Alex Gibney

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