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More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.
— Rolf Hochhuth
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.
— Wendy Lesser
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
There is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.
— Mary Parker Follett
The passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity's most pernicious and sterile manias.
— Flaubert
[H]e could feel his unshakable enemy, depression, blooming in him like a pernicious flower that could never quite be ripped out.
— Andrea Speed
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.
— Theodore Schroeder
Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
— Richard Steele
Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.
— Nicholas Kristof
World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps
— Rohinton Mistry
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
— Robert Dale Owen
Failing to follow your dream is the most pernicious form of suicide.
— Deborah L. Fruchey
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
— Elizabeth Edwards
The presence of anti-IF antibodies is highly specific for pernicious anemia.
— Terry Mahan Buttaro
Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
— Art Spiegelman
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
— Walter Savage Landor
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
— Allan Bloom
It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.
— Anita Sarkeesian
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
— George Bernard Shaw
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.
— Murray Rothbard
Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.
— Juan Gabriel
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus
pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. — Homer
pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. — Homer
Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state.
— Tom Holland
Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.
— Robert Bellarmine
Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it.
— Stephen King
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.
— Emma Goldman
Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.
— William Shakespeare
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
— Bertrand Russell
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
— Ludwig Von Mises
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.
— Henry VIII Of England
The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.
— Erich Ludendorff
Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy.
— E. M. Forster
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
No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
— Martin Van Buren
That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."
— James Russell Lowell
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.
— Steven Pressfield
We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.
— Joseph Addison
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.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.
— David Hume