The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.
I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many biologists once claimed it to be. The theory is not just conceptually coherent; there are adaptations out there in nature (like reduced virulence in some viruses) that evolved because there was group selection.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.
That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong. "
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.
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.
Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Religion is. . . the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.
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.
Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.
But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.