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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth. -- Alfie Kohn
Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy. -- Janet Poppendieck
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. -- Ugo Betti
Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth. -- Martin Rees
I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America. -- George W. Bush
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. -- Tim Holden
Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them. -- Richard Branson
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. -- Ralph Nader
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. -- Mary Frances Berry
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want. -- Charles Koch
A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing. -- Wendelin Van Draanen
To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors. -- Grace Napolitano
Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others. -- Ronald Reagan
Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that. -- John Frankenheimer
To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. -- John Ashcroft
I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security. -- Ron Paul
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions. -- William Hague
God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode. -- Bob Riley
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed. -- Adolf Hitler
Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
The government continues to erode our freedom. -- Diane Black
The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem. -- Jim Rohn
Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore. -- Abigail Van Buren
Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside. -- Bob Seger
We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar. -- James E. Faust
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. -- Sadegh Hedayat
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence. -- Andy Stanley
Why does time erode relationships? Is there a way to avoid its relentless lapping? Is any love strong enough to withstand the chipping away? -- Ellen Hopkins
The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure. -- Gregory Maguire
When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience. -- Edward T. Welch
Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode. -- Thomas S. Monson
When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power. -- Margaret Heffernan
If there's anything I have learned since returning to Congress, it's that talk is still cheap, progress is still slow, and our liberties continue to erode every day. -- Matt Salmon
We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. -- Paul Ryan
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong. -- James Surowiecki
Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect. -- Bob Barr
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love. -- Robert Gottlieb

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