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

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Paz, Guerra, Creer

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• The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

  William Shenstone

  Mean, People, Littles

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• Parece entonces, digo yo, que dejas la política enteramente fuera de la cuestión, y nunca supones, que un magistrado sabio pueda justamente ser celoso de ciertos principios de la filosofía, tales como los de Epicuro, los cuales, negando una existencia divina, y consecuentemente una providencia y un estado futuro, parecen aflojar, en gran medida, los lazos de la moralidad, y pueden suponerse, por esa razón, perniciosos para la paz de la sociedad civil.

  David Hume

  Sabio, Filosofía, Celoso

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition", p.101, Oxford University Press

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• La necesidad de un senado no está menos indicada por la propensión de todas las asambleas individuales y numerosas, a ceder al impulso de pasiones repentinas y violentas, y a ser seducidas por líderes facciosos, en resoluciones destempladas y perniciosas.

  James Madison

  Passion, Yield, Leader

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.474, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• 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.

  Emma Goldman

  Lucha, Hombres, Ideas

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Stupid, Two, Feuds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Homer

  Wine, Mind, Body

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

  Joseph Addison

  Talent, Command, Eloquence

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30”, p.485

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• Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the view­point of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.

  Milan Kundera

  Views, Evil, Judging

  "Testaments Betrayed". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

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• There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Important, Individual, Duty

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.35, Broadway Books

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• Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Powerful, Men, Expression

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1913). “Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)”

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• Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism, and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

  Papa Pío IX

  Believe, Names, Evil

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• A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.

  León Trotsky

  Guerra, Media, Lucha

  Leon Trotsky (1937). “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?”, p.171, Mehring Books

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• Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These minds hoped to distance themselves from the pernicious vices of a whole way of thinking, but of course at the same time excluded all of its virtues too. Modern abstractivism in its simplex form (which does not preclude a high degree of articulate facility within the ambit of what is preconceived and accepted).

  Kenny Smith

  Distance, Philosophy, Thinking

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• One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Ambition, Evil, Tasks

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.114

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• Creo que de todas las cosas que un estado policial puede hacer a sus ciudadanos, distorsionar la historia es posiblemente la más perniciosa.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pensamiento, Policía, Ciudadanos

  "The Past Through Tomorrow" por Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 401), 1967.

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• 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.

  Emma Goldman

  Fighting, Humanity, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• La lujuria es un inmoderado desenfreno de la carne, un dulce veneno, una cruel pestilencia; un veneno pernicioso, que debilita el cuerpo del hombre, y afemina la fuerza de la mente heroica.

  Francis Quarles

  Sweet, Men, Lust

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

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• Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Charity, Moral

  John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848”, p.329, Library of America

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• La edad adulta trae consigo una perniciosa ilusión de control.

  Juan Gabriel

  Illusion Of Control, Illusion, Adulthood

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• Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Religious, Two, Said

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• There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.

  Tim Allen

  Country, Culture, Roles

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• Las conciencias de los hombres no deben ser violadas, urgidas o forzadas de ninguna manera. Y siempre que los hombres han intentado algo por este camino violento, ya sea abiertamente o por medios secretos, el resultado ha sido pernicioso, y la causa de grandes y maravillosas innovaciones en los principales y más poderosos reinos y países.

  Roger Williams

  País, Medio, Hombres

  "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience". Book by Roger Williams. "Address to Parliament", 1644.

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• The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

  David Hume

  Arbitrary, Taxes

  David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.387

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• The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

  Ernestine Rose

  Men, Causes, Done

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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