Top 194 Pernicious Quotes & Sayings

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

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

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

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

Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.

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

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

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.

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

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.

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.

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

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

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.

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.

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

Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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

Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?” I didn’t think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flame. “Pernicious? Good grief, is English your second language? Third?” Only someone who’d learned English from a dictionary would use such a word. “Fifth,” he snarled. “Answer me.

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

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

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

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

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.

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

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.

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

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

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

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

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.

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

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.

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.

Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. 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.

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

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.

Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence.

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