Quotes about Insidious

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice. Votes: 4

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. Votes: 4

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. Votes: 4

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. Votes: 4

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever. Votes: 4

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. Votes: 4

Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love. Votes: 2

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Votes: 2

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life. Votes: 2

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. Votes: 2

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing. Votes: 2

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. Votes: 2

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs. Votes: 2

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war. Votes: 2

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation. Votes: 2

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams. Votes: 2

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth. Votes: 2

With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration. Votes: 2

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. Votes: 2

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age. Votes: 2

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting. Votes: 2

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way. Votes: 2

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research. Votes: 2

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. Votes: 2

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. Votes: 2

Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate. Votes: 2

Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment. Votes: 2

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. Votes: 2

There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I'd done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good. Votes: 2

Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life. Votes: 2

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious. Votes: 2

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration. Votes: 2

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious. Votes: 2

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. Votes: 2

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. Votes: 2

I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out. Votes: 2

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate. Votes: 0

Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship. Votes: 0

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised. Votes: 0

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. Votes: 0

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious. Votes: 0

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally. Votes: 0

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ... Votes: 0

We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts. Votes: 0

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency. Votes: 0

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder Votes: 0

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all. Votes: 0

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . . Votes: 0

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country. Votes: 0

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot. Votes: 0

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. Votes: 0

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order. Votes: 0

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself. Votes: 0

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. Votes: 0

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere. Votes: 0

The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system. Votes: 0

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method. Votes: 0

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious. Votes: 0

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious. Votes: 0

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. Votes: 0

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. Votes: 0

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. Votes: 0

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath. Votes: 0

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. Votes: 0

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God. Votes: 0

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes. Votes: 0

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do. Votes: 0

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person. Votes: 0

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious. Votes: 0

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat. Votes: 0

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. Votes: 0

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis. Votes: 0

I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment. Votes: 0

We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful. Votes: 0

There are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all sorts of insidious powers. Votes: 0

We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever. Votes: 0

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Votes: 0

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. Votes: 0

I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception. Votes: 0

All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion. Votes: 0

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors. Votes: 0

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there. Votes: 0

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence. Votes: 0

a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy. Votes: 0

It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street! Votes: 0

Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious. Votes: 0

I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious, corrosive lapping of a whispering sea of uneasiness. Votes: 0

I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition. Votes: 0

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one. Votes: 0

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world. Votes: 0