Pernicious Quotes
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.
No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
Let's move forward to try to address the most egregious and outrageous corrupting aspect of campaigns in America today and that is the incredible inundation of soft money and its pernicious effects.
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.