Pernicious Quotes

Pernicious Quote of the day

Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.

You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.