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• 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.

  Pascal Mercier

  Feelings, Gold, Bars

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.332, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• La eficacia de la propaganda política y religiosa depende de los métodos empleados, no de las doctrinas enseñadas. Estas doctrinas pueden ser verdaderas o falsas, sanas o perniciosas, poco o nada importa.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Differences, Effectiveness

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). "Ensayos completos: 1956-1963, y suplemento, 1920-1948", Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Believe, Gun, Men

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• Esta doctrina del perdón de los pecados es una prima al delito. Perdona nuestros pecados significa que continuemos en nuestra iniquidad. Es una de las doctrinas más perniciosas y una de las fuentes más fructíferas de inmoralidad. Ha sido la causa principal de que las naciones cristianas sean las más inmorales. Al enseñar esta doctrina, Cristo cometió un pecado que su muerte no expió y que nunca podrá ser perdonado. El pecado no tiene perdón. Toda causa tiene su efecto; todo pecador debe sufrir las consecuencias de sus pecados.

  John Remsburg

  Cristiano, Enseñanza, Medio

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• Ante nuestros ojos tenemos los resultados de ideologías como el marxismo, el nazismo y el fascismo, y también de mitos como la superioridad racial, el nacionalismo y el exclusivismo étnico. No menos perniciosos, aunque no siempre tan evidentes, son los efectos del consumismo materialista, en el que la exaltación del individuo y la satisfacción egoísta de las aspiraciones personales se convierten en el objetivo último de la vida. En esta perspectiva, los efectos negativos sobre los demás se consideran completamente irrelevantes.

  Pope John Paul II

  Egoísta, Ojo, Objetivo

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• Si el principal partido, sea el pueblo, sea el ejército, sea la nobleza, que consideras más útil y de mayor consecuencia para la conservación de tu dignidad, es corrupto, debes seguir su humor y complacerlo, y en ese caso la honestidad y la virtud son perniciosas.

  Nicolás Maquiavelo

  Honesty, Party, Army

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• A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Character, Evil, Despair

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• 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.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Condesa de Blessington

  Imagination, Storytelling, Poet

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

  Erich Ludendorff

  Christian, Religious, Influence

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

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Powerful, Champion, Faces

  "Elizabeth Edwards: 'With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too'". Elizabeth Edwards' speech at Consumer Watchdog’s 2007 Rage for Justice dinner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• 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

  Love, People, Ruins

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• If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.

  Papa León XIII

  Writing, Errors, Race

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.108, TAN Books

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• The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Hero, Blood

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.1712, Modern Library

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intellectual, Creationism, Perversion

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• Theological error is the most pernicious of errors; it strikes at man's center and separates him from his Creator and Redeemer. God insisted not only that Israelites should judge their own hearts and cast aside falsehood about Him but that they should also confront it wherever it emerged.

  Max Anders

  Heart, Men, Errors

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• No sólo los hijos de los ricos o de los poderosos, sino de todos
  por igual,
  niños y niñas, nobles e innobles, ricos y pobres, de todas las ciudades
  y
  pueblos, aldeas y caseríos.
  En efecto, la educación es necesaria para todos, y esto es evidente si
  consideramos
  los diferentes grados de capacidad. Nadie duda de que los
  estúpidos
  necesitan instrucción para sacudirse su torpeza natural. Pero
  en
  que una mente activa, si no está ocupada en cosas útiles, se ocupará en lo que es inútil.
  si no se ocupa de cosas útiles, se ocupará de lo inútil,
  curioso y pernicioso.

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Powerful, Children

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• He pasado mucho tiempo argumentando que la teoría de la selección de grupos no es la doctrina estúpida y perniciosa que muchos biólogos afirmaron en su día que era. La teoría no es sólo coherente desde el punto de vista conceptual; hay adaptaciones en la naturaleza (como la virulencia reducida de algunos virus) que evolucionaron porque hubo selección de grupo.

  Elliott Sober

  Stupid, Groups, Viruses

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That said, a lot of people buy products with "green" in the brand name, but make no attempt to understand what it would really take to live sustainably. I think one of the most pernicious examples of magical environmental thinking is the anti-GMO movement.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Names, Gmos

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• There's something profoundly liberating about giving, yet we don't do it often enough. It begs the question: why not? For some of us, our demanding schedules overtake our time to volunteer. For others, our fear of economic instability manifests a mindset dominated by pernicious lies like, "You can't afford to give" and "If you give, you won't have enough". However, truth of the matter is we simply cannot afford to not give back!

  Jen Lilley

  Lying, Volunteer, Giving

  "Cuenta tus bendiciones y observa cómo se multiplican", por Jen Lilley, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Avancemos para tratar de abordar el aspecto corruptor más atroz y escandaloso de las campañas en Estados Unidos hoy en día y es la increíble inundación de dinero blando y sus efectos perniciosos.

  John McCain

  Moving, America, Trying

  "Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform" por Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. 12 de octubre de 1999.

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• The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Welfare Programs, Voting

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• New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.

  Michael J. Boskin

  Government, Voting, President

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

  Emma Goldman

  Class, Majority, Dictator

  Emma Goldman (1998). "Habla Emma la Roja: Una lectora de Emma Goldman"

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• I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

  John Adams

  Running, Democracies Have, Long

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.405, Regnery Publishing

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• Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

  Art Spiegelman

  Propaganda, Fascists

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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