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Trust is the most insidious of poisons. Trust sidesteps all of your precautions. — Mark Lawrence

The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance.
They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what? — Jonathan Heatt

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

Trying to outrun the novelist's most insidious enemy, which is doubt. — Stephen King

Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious. — Wilhelm Reich

Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors. — James F. Bell, III

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor. — Seneca.

Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question... — T. S. Eliot

Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious. — A.E. Samaan

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

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

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

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

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

Nature had come into her own again and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. — Daphne Du Maurier

Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship. — Marty Rubin

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. — Thomas Hardy

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 — Edward Bates

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

Might-have-been are insidious, aren't they, in the way they don't ever quite lie still or go away. — Patrick Gale

It seems to me that he died from a combination of two of the oldest and most insidious killers of all: ignorance and avarice. — Robert A. Norman

It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote. — Scott Oden

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington

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

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it. — George R R Martin

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country. — James Howard Kunstler

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

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

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. — John Ratzenberger

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

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

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

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

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

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

If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly. — Victoria Schwab

W. Bush's life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich. — Chris Hedges

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

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

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

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. — Meg Ryan

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. — Claudia Rankine

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

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

Charm of the most insidious kind: humorous, self-deprecating, and disarmingly frank and confiding. — Loretta Chase

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

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

Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious. — Timothy Ferriss

Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn't like being locked away. — Laini Taylor

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ... — Helen Keller

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

That was years ago. I've learned my lessons well and played my role. No longer willing to be a victim, today I'm insidious. — Aleatha Romig

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

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

Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice. — Donna Lynn Hope

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

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate. — Lebbeus Woods

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. — James Surowiecki

Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like — Peter D. Kramer

Los Angeles can never be convinced to fight fair, but the town has an insidious way of tempting back its most devoted followers. — Jennifer Harrison

These are the insidious monsters in our heads making us do ourselves in. — Chris Shelton

Confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder — Cornel West

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love. — Mark Akenside

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised. — Neal Shusterman

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

Absolute perfection is insidious. — Chirag Tulsiani

The greatest dangers to liberty," said Mr. Brandeis, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. — E.B. White

Addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike. — Lou Gramm

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

But these days the demons are more insidious; they're the everyday annoyances, the little things that suck away our potential to do big things. — Jocelyn K. Glei

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. — Hill Harper

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. — Alan Moore

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do. — Courtney Schafer