Undermines Quotes
95 quotes by 93 authors
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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
— Bob Barr
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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
— Dan Brown
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The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts…
— Hillary Clinton
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The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal…
— William J. Clinton
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The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs…
— Ron Paul
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The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at…
— Charles A. Murray
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Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.
— Yasmina Reza
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I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that…
— Andrei Sakharov
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Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and…
— John Dewey
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen…
— John Ralston Saul
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Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts…
— Charles Koch
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we…
— Robert Grudin
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it…
— Andrew Solomon
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With a nonviolent movement we are still inviting a strong reaction from the government or ruling authorities. We are inviting a powerful reaction against ourselves.…
— Tim DeChristopher
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Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
— George Soros
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Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling…
— Tony Buzan
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In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing…
— Os Guinness
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Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
— William Bridges
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