Top 100 Undermines Quotes
#1. My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.
Jerzy Kosinski
#2. The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.
Debbie Stabenow
#3. With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.
Yoshihiko Noda
#4. There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.
B.G. Bowers
#5. Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
Robert Reich
#6. Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.
Dean Smith
#7. The manifest discourse, therefore, is really no more than the repressive presence of what it does not say; and this 'not-said' is a hollow that undermines from within all that is said.
Michel Foucault
#8. If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
Russell Kirk
#9. It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
Eric Hoffer
#10. Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.
Audie Cornish
#11. Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
William Bridges
#13. Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
Benazir Bhutto
#14. When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.
Ed Belfour
#15. The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
David Frum
#16. Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.
Guy Debord
#17. It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Christopher Lasch
#18. Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.
Elizabeth A. Johnson
#19. Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts the political process.
Charles Koch
#20. I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness ... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
Aimee Mullins
#21. That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.
Malcolm Gladwell
#22. I don't understand exactly what's going on, but Goodreads shouldn't be deleting reviews, period. People are smart enough to look at them on their own and make up their mind, and deleting reviews undermines the integrity of the site.
Brett J. Talley
#23. If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.
Anita Roddick
#24. I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
Walter Isaacson
#25. Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.
Barack Obama
#26. The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.
Randal Marlin
#27. Art is inherently subversive. It's destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.
Deborah Eisenberg
#28. The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#29. The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself.
Ken Ham
#30. We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.
Tom Fitton
#31. I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?
Kate Atkinson
#32. Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.
Josh Fox
#33. The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
Allan Bloom
#34. When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man ... Love, then, is seen a religious problem
Ernest Becker
#35. Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Joseph Joubert
#36. The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.
Bill Johnson
#37. Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
Dennis Prager
#39. Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important is not to focus all your efforts on the oppression, but to continue the constructive work.
Noam Chomsky
#40. New technology also creates new occupations and requires new expertise, which further undermines the value of long experience and seasoned judgment.
Atul Gawande
#41. However, letting yourself be driven by fear, denying the realities around you, or trying to control the unknown only undermines your confidence.
Bob Rosen
#42. The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
Hillary Clinton
#43. Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.
Noam Chomsky
#44. When something sucks, it saps your energy and undermines the quality of your life. It makes you feel smaller and wish you hadn't participated.
Alan Cohen
#45. I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.
Clayton Christensen
#46. Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
Dan Brown
#47. Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.
Shane Black
#48. The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.
Charles A. Murray
#49. We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
Bill Bradley
#50. But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.
Barack Obama
#51. Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
Diane Ravitch
#52. this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way.
Jerome A. Miller
#53. Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
Inga Muscio
#54. [Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.
Clare Short
#55. I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.
Koren Zailckas
#56. It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.
Franz Alexander
#57. The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.
Sean Brady
#58. Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.
Jed Diamond
#59. Do you think she was gay before or after she started watching Xena?" the male squirrel asked. "That subtext works like a nasty termite. It undermines the structure of human females from within.
Blayne Cooper
#60. Anything written for an audience of mostly women by a community of mostly women is subversive, reflective of the current sexual, emotional, and political status, and actively embraces and undermines that status simultaneously.
Sarah Wendell
#61. The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.
Nostradamus
#62. Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Christopher Lasch
#63. If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
Najib Razak
#64. For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Sallust
#65. The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.
John Garamendi
#66. America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse.
Aasif Mandvi
#67. Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.
John Dewey
#68. Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.
Anthony Biglan
#69. The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#70. That no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.
Tom Robbins
#71. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility. Our
Michael Pollan
#72. Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
#73. First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
Bobby Jindal
#74. While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
Ann Coulter
#75. [Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.
Andrew Sullivan
#76. I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.
David Twohy
#77. I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.
Renee Fleming
#78. Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.
Peter DeFazio
#79. Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another ... Inequality undermines democracy.
George Packer
#80. Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.
Nathaniel Branden
#81. The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.
Arno C. Gaebelein
#82. We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.
Rob Simmons
#83. Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
Bob Barr
#84. Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
George Soros
#86. Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#87. The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.
Craig Owens
#88. Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.
Norman Doidge
#89. Harmony leads inexorably to discontent, discontent leads to restlessness, and restlessness pollutes and ultimately undermines harmony - driving the once-satisfied organism from the momentary security and pleasure it had enjoyed, yet cannot help but grow savagely tired of.
John Zande
#90. An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.
Ellen Tauscher
#91. Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.
Jamais Cascio
#92. I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.
Tom Cole
#93. Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.
Jared Polis
#94. Any effort which wittingly or unwittingly draws a wedge between the people and Armed Forces of Pakistan undermines the larger national interest.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
#95. We often seem to create meaning by complaining. This can feel momentarily satisfying, but ultimately it undermines the integrity of our experience. It sucks the meaning out of our work and out of our relationship to our
Alex Pattakos
#96. Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale ...
Arthur Koestler
#97. Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts
Widad Akreyi
#98. Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
Alan Greenspan
#99. [As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.
Jesse Eisenberg
#100. Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.
Yasmina Reza
