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  • It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.

    Men   Rights   Evil  
  • We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower (2006). “The Military-Industrial Complex: With an Introduction by Jesse Smith”, p.24, Basementia Publications
  • The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

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

    Wish   Want   Fancy  
    Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, p.120, Thomas Hardy
  • 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.

    Girl   Integrity   Boys  
    "Body Image: Ashley Judd Calls for an End to Body Snarking--Will You Take Her Challenge?" by Sarah Jio, www.glamour.com. April 11, 2012.
  • I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

    Smart   Believe   Museums  
    Source: bookpage.com
  • habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

    Passion   Thug   Habit  
    Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.119, Vintage
  • Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, ‘What is God like?’ and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind

    Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.7, Fig
  • 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.

  • The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.

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

    George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.10
  • The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

    Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
  • 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.

    War   Character   Way  
    Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Michigan Legislature in Lansing (May 15, 1952) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.
  • 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.

    "Political Sex Scandal; Interview With Pat Summerall; 'Minding Your Business': Wal-Mart; '90-Second Pop'". "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.
  • American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.

    Sleep   Media   Car  
  • One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

    Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.172, Paul & Company Pub Consortium
  • confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

    Soul   Murder   Form  
  • 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.

    Depression   Keys   Sight  
    Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.57, Bantam
  • One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

  • A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

    Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
  • If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.

    Real   Believe   Roots  
    Bob Torres (2007). “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights”, p.7, AK Press
  • [John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

    Gone   May   Regimes  
    Source: www.lewrockwell.com
  • It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.

    Believe   Heart   Men  
    Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.
  • It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

  • 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.

    "It's a Wrap". Message posted on ourchart.com, October 16, 2008.
  • One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

  • I think that it's insidious to be spending more of your time reflecting and talking about panels, and talking more and more in smart ways about your otherness, rather than doing the hard work of your job.

    Jobs   Smart   Hard Work  
    "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.
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