Quotes About Undermining

#1. Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

Mark Twain

#3. The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Ezra Taft Benson

#4. After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

Maurice Strong

#5. We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

James P. Hoffa

#6. Heaven send us better times! There is nothing but plotting and counter-plotting, undermining and counter-mining in this world.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#7. The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.

Boris Johnson

#8. As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

Plutarch

#9. The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

Philip Auslander

#10. Odd, said Miss Pettigrew conversationally, 'the undermining effect of flowers on a woman's common sense.

Winifred Watson

#11. The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

Rick Santorum

#12. From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Noam Chomsky

#13. Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.

Wendy Kopp

#14. Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

Roy Moore

#15. 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

Carly Fiorina

#16. Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of the race; just as religion cannot be amalgamated with the scheming of political parties.

Adolf Hitler

#17. Both Bush as well as Tony Blair are undermining an idea [the United Nations]. Is this because the secretary general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary generals were white.

Nelson Mandela

#18. Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles ... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

Dana Brunetti

#19. As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

Evgeny Morozov

#20. Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Alistair Darling

#21. I do wish Slumtrimpet could do something about undermining that young woman's sense of the ridiculous.

C.S. Lewis

#22. I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

Joyce Banda

#23. To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#24. Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've tried to take on all of them in the first chapter of Knowledge and Its Place in Nature.)

Hilary Kornblith

#25. There's a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it's gonna cost 'em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they're undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable.

Rush Limbaugh

#26. Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

Patty Murray

#27. Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.

Henry Giroux

#28. I am not asking anyone to take the fun out of childhood. As we all know, treats are one of the best parts of being a kid. Instead, the goal here is to empower parents instead of undermining them as they try to make healthier choices for their families.

Michelle Obama

#29. We shouldn't be undermining Medicare for those who need it most in order to give more tax cuts to those who need them least.

Ann McLane Kuster

#30. In reading Chesterton I was undermining my own most dearly held prejudices.

Joseph Pearce

#31. Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

Pope Francis

#32. If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

George Carey

#33. The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees
that. The only force capable of undermining it is
government.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#34. The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#35. Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

C.S. Lewis

#36. So at most companies, an unspoken compact emerges: It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you. On the other hand, if you focus on boosting your own department, rather than undermining your rival, you'll probably get taken care of over time.

Charles Duhigg

#37. The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

Al Gore

#38. I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

Vaclav Klaus

#39. Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

Andy Crouch

#41. The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the opposite.

Noam Chomsky

#42. Horst lurked in a corner, sitting upon a tea chest, and undermining any menace his vampiric presence might have brought to proceedings by reading an ancient copy of Comic Cuts that he had found somewhere.

Jonathan L. Howard

#43. Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Benazir Bhutto

#44. What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

Lin Yutang

#45. There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country.

Bernie Sanders

#46. When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#47. This president [Barack Obama] is undermining the constitutional basis of this government. This president is undermining our military. He is undermining our standing in the world ... The damage he has done to America is extraordinary.

Marco Rubio

#48. I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance.

Kenneth Branagh

#49. To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Theodore Roosevelt

#50. The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#51. I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

Emily Yoffe

#52. People use rewards expecting to gain the benefit of increasing another person's motivation and behavior, but in so doing, they often incur the unintentional and hidden cost of undermining that person's intrinsic motivation toward the activity.

Daniel H. Pink

#53. As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.

Chuck D

#54. Associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

Jonah Goldberg

#55. Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.

James Comey

#56. Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

Katharine Graham

#57. I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.

Martin McGuinness

#58. Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

Fatih Birol

#59. There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride

Mary Wollstonecraft

#60. If we think there is an undermining now, just wait if Sharia is adopted or utilized by justices in the United States.

Donald Trump

#61. All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.

Lynne Truss

#62. What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end up permanently undermining the trust required for its existence.

Jason Stanley

#63. Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.

Jonas Gahr Store

#64. The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.

F. W. De Klerk

#65. When we can only be happy for the success of those less fortunate, we are secretly undermining our own success.

Charles F. Glassman

#66. One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists.

Ted Cruz

#67. Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.

Steve Erickson

#68. Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

#69. We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

Dennis Prager

#70. Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits.

Theresa May

#71. The second you believe in hell, you're undermining everything good because a morality based in fear can only bring out the worst in people and never their best.

David Ellis Dickerson

#72. This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

Raul Grijalva

#73. There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#74. As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

Alistair Darling

#75. The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#76. Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by ... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

Leon Panetta

#77. We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.

Barack Obama

#78. The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

A.C. Grayling

#79. As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life.

Bruce H. Lipton

#80. Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

Ralph Nader

#81. The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

Zac Goldsmith

#82. Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Mason Cooley

#83. When women with class power opportunistically use a feminist platform while undermining feminist politics that helps keep in place a patriarchal system that will ultimately re-subordinate them, they do not just betray feminism; they betray themselves.

Bell Hooks

#84. President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.

George Soros

#85. You feel me inside you?
You feel me claiming you?
You feel me destroying you?
You feel me around you?
You feel me undermining you?
You feel me making you care?

Pepper Winters

#86. The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

China Mieville

#87. Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#88. I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

Richard Rodriguez

#89. When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

Rollo May

#90. Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#91. I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

Bellamy Young

#92. I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.

Dominique Moceanu

#93. Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.

Bell Hooks

#94. If men would understand and appreciate the good efforts that went into creation and how beautiful, good and awesome the creations were at the beginning, they would never think of undermining the Creators effort and integrity by destroying the beauty of nature! God is watching us!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#95. A data visualization should only be beautiful when beauty can promote understanding in some way without undermining it in another. Is beauty sometimes useful? Certainly. Is beauty always useful? Certainly not.

Alberto Cairo

#96. We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

James Cook

#97. A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

Jerry Brown

#98. When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.

Cheryl Hughes

#99. War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

#100. The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

Stephen Harper