Pernicious Quotes - Page 5

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Insulting, Democracy, Germany

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• Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Fall, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.584, Courier Corporation

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• La máquina ha tenido un efecto pernicioso sobre la virtud, la piedad y el amor, y los jóvenes acostumbrados a máquinas que inducen a la inercia y al miedo, son casi impotentes.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Amor, Hombres, Máquinas

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). "Limosna para el olvido", p.44, U of Minnesota Press

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• There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made subservient to useful purposes; but which if left entirely to itself, may be attended with pernicious effects.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mind, Purpose, May

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States”, p.109

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• Para responder al propósito de los adversarios de la Constitución, deben probar no sólo que algunas de sus disposiciones no son las mejores, como podría haberse imaginado, sino que el plan en su conjunto es malo y pernicioso.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Respuestas, Poder, Propósito

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). "The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution", p.322, Coventry House Publishing.

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• Golpea más profundo, crece con una raíz más perniciosa.

  William Shakespeare

  Roots, Greed, Strikes

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope (1747). “The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes”, p.405

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• La verdad es que la mayoría de la gente carece de la capacidad intelectual y el valor para resistirse a un movimiento popular, por pernicioso y mal pensado que sea.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Life, People, Intellectual

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Giving, May, His Love

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• ¡Maleza perniciosa! cuyo aroma molesta a las bellas, hostil a las principales alegrías de la sociedad: tu peor efecto es desterrar durante horas al sexo cuya presencia civiliza al nuestro.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Sex, Joy

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.163

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• In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits; they are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

  Adam Smith

  Philosophy, Simple, People

  "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations".

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• We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no means clear that it means anything at all. Or if it means anything, it means so many different things to be misleading, even pernicious.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Animal, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• "There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words."

  Steven Erikson

  Roots, People, Hatred

  Steven Erikson (2009). “House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4”, p.236, Random House

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• History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. 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.

  Joseph Heller

  Niños, Guerra, Hombres

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Los hombres que podían mantenerse en pie habían cruzado el vagón para animar a los italianos a su paso. Una muleta se asomaba por la ventanilla; los antebrazos vendados hacían el saludo rojo. Era como un cuadro alegórico de la guerra; el tren cargado de hombres frescos deslizándose orgullosamente por la línea, los hombres mutilados deslizándose lentamente hacia abajo, y todo el tiempo las armas en los camiones abiertos haciéndole a uno saltar el corazón como siempre lo hacen las armas, y reviviendo ese sentimiento pernicioso, tan difícil de eliminar, de que la guerra *es* gloriosa después de todo.

  George Orwell

  Cheer, War, Heart

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Grief, Eye, Flirting

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• What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Believe, Gains, Action

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• Entonces la cortesía es una traición. Pero es cierto que soy amada de todas las damas, sólo vos exceptuada: y ojalá pudiera encontrar en mi corazón que no tengo un corazón duro; porque, en verdad, no amo a ninguna. Beatriz: Dicha querida de las mujeres: de otro modo se hubieran turbado con un pretendiente pernicioso. Doy gracias a Dios y a mi sangre fría, soy de vuestro humor por ello: Prefiero oír a mi perro ladrar a un cuervo que a un hombre jurar que me ama. -Mucho ruido y pocas nueces

  William Shakespeare

  Perro, Corazón, Hombres

  William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford

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• 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.

  Joseph Heller

  Children, War, Parent

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.

  William Borah

  Intellectual, Coward, Looks

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• El sentimiento de rectitud es la principal alteración del estado de ánimo entre los adictos religiosos. La adicción religiosa es un problema masivo en nuestra sociedad. Puede que sea la más perniciosa de todas las adicciones porque a la persona le resulta muy difícil romper su engaño y negación. ¿Cómo puede haber algo malo en amar a Dios y dar la vida por las buenas obras y el servicio a la humanidad?

  John Bradshaw

  Religioso, Amar la vida, Dar

  John Bradshaw (2010). "Healing the Shame that Binds You", p.138, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Estoy persuadido de que el mundo ha sido engañado para que adopte algunas nociones falsas y de lo más perniciosas sobre la coherencia, y hasta tal punto que el hombre medio ha dado la vuelta por completo a los aciertos y errores de las cosas y se enorgullece de ser "coherente", inmutable, inamovible, fosilizado, cuando debería ser su humillación.

  Mark Twain

  Hombres, Derechos, Media

  Mark Twain Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations", p.407, Courier Corporation

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• La gran mayoría de los psicópatas, como un iceberg, están bajo el agua, y como un iceberg, son inertes. No hacen nada. Simplemente están ahí. Atormentan a su cónyuge siendo poco empáticos, pero no la golpean ni la matan. Intimidan a sus compañeros de trabajo, pero no queman la oficina. No son dramáticos. Son perniciosos. La mayoría de los psicópatas son sutiles. Se parecen más a un veneno que a un cuchillo, y se parecen más a un veneno de acción lenta que al cianuro.

  Sam Vaknin

  Cuchillos, Oficina, Matón

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

  Robert Dale Owen

  Worship, Worst, Idolatry

  Robert Dale Owen (1871). “The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next: With Illustrative Narrations”, p.102

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• Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Sex, Children, Real

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

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Inspirational, Media, Criticism

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