. . . unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
I'll tell you what is insidious about the Disney Princess, besides the fact that if you look into their merchandise, the 26,000 items, you're always finding books that are about "my perfect wedding. " It's what it puts girls on the path for. And that it poses as something that protects girls, or staves off premature sexualization, when I think it primes them for it. I don't know where to put that on the continuum exactly. I guess eight?
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.
Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.
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.
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.
How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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.
Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby. . . . I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.
The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
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.
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.
For the patient who remained hospitalized a long time, an insidious metamorphosis took place - the outside world dimmed and faded like a watercolor exposed to the sun, while the hospital became the center and the only real part of the universe.
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.