Quotes with pernicious

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

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  • Alexander Herzen All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • André Gide 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.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Allan Bloom Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Aldous Huxley The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Edward Dahlberg 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.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Rohinton Mistry World can be a bewildering place, and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps.
    Tales from Firozsha Baag (2008) 117
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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