Top 219 Insidious Quotes & Sayings

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

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?

Mercantilism was an insidious economic theory that held Europe in its thrall in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.

The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

As I was writing 'Insidious 3' I started to fall in love with the characters and the story. I became very possessive of it and I didn't want someone else to do it.

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

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

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

There are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all sorts of insidious powers.

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

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

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

The 'Ndrangheta is an exceptionally dangerous, sophisticated and insidious criminal organization, with tentacles stretching from Italy to countries around the world.

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

The flack I got for 'Saw' is why I wanted to direct 'Insidious 2.'

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

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

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

It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this time’; or, ‘We should wait until present ones are improved.’

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

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

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

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

Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.

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

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

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

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

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.

If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

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 stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

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

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

Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it.

Alzheimer's is such an insidious disease.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.

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.

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

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

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

I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.

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

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.

The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.

Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.

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.