Insidious Quotes

Insidious Quote of the day

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.