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Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE. -- Sid Vicious
Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free. -- Taylor Mead
No one can undermine national unity. -- Ivica Dacic
By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today. -- Jamais Cascio
I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States. -- Peter T. King
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. -- George W. Bush
Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief. -- Carol Ann Duffy
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. -- Azar Nafisi
I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever. -- Lewis Black
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it. -- Noam Chomsky
Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free. -- Noam Chomsky
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice. -- Anita Hill
The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization. -- Max Baucus
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units. -- Paul Di Filippo
If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction. -- John Yarmuth
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. -- Naomi Wolf
Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe. -- Ted Cruz
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs. -- Henry Giroux
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions. -- Kim Campbell
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives. -- Barry Schwartz
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world. -- Sam Harris
Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I'm sure it's illegal. It's also an effort to undermine free speech. -- Noam Chomsky
There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics. -- Miroslav Volf
Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas. -- Vint Cerf
Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief. -- Mason Cooley
I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits. -- Bernard Moitessier
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism. -- Henry Mintzberg
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership. -- Christiane Amanpour
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime. -- Thomas Paine
Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else. -- David Allen
I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. -- Laura Bush
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals. -- Coco Chanel
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. -- Barbara Deming
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something. -- Ben Okri
Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers. -- Loretta Lynch
Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something. -- Cory Booker
Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics -- Brian Cox
Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage. -- Michael Hyatt
The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything. -- Joseph Brodsky
It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future -- Desmond Tutu
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. -- Mariane Pearl
What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press. -- Stephen Colbert
The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society. -- Van Jones
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. -- Louis D. Brandeis
I don't think it's good for America to have a former president undermine a current president. -- George W. Bush
It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. -- Hannah Arendt
The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States. -- Peter T. King
Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. -- Daniel Boone
When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism... -- Assegid Habtewold
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. -- Naomi Wolf
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. -- Ellen Willis
Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible. -- John Ensign
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live. -- Bill Hybels
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health. -- Dalai Lama
Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice. -- Janet Reno
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. -- Wendell Phillips
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people -- Wendell Phillips
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy. -- John Lyly
You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. -- Rick Santorum
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it. -- Rush Limbaugh
That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services. -- Richard A. Epstein
Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it. -- Rush Limbaugh
The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm. -- Barack Obama
Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth. -- Victor Ponta
The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign. -- George W. Bush
The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it. -- Yiannis Stournaras
When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else. -- Rodney Brooks
There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations. -- China Mieville
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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung -- Abraham Lincoln
Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend -- Jim MacNeill
You might have some people that disagree with populism and anti-globalism and so forth, but Donald Trump has no desire to undermine America. -- Rush Limbaugh
The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power. -- Lewis Browne
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted. -- Louisa May Alcott
The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it. -- John C. Maxwell
Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is. -- Alex Kozinski
House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back. -- Frances Beinecke
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits. -- Maya Angelou
Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy. -- Annabel Park
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters. -- John Ratzenberger
For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games! -- Cathy Freeman
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize. -- Bob Dylan
Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine. -- D. H. Lawrence
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. -- John Ralston Saul
Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly. -- Liz Miller
Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it. -- Benjamin Franklin
The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend. -- Milton Friedman
Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have. -- Nhat Hanh
My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones. -- Katharine Graham
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy. -- Jane Porter
We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality. -- Hillary Clinton
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice. -- Blaise Pascal
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior. -- John R.W. Stott
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it. -- Amy Chua
For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis. -- Bashar al-Assad
What do the Republicans say? Donald Trump? They say they're just going to roll back the Dodd-Frank regulations. They want to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. -- Elizabeth Warren
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy. -- Henry Giroux
No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion. -- Laura Esquivel
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior. -- John R.W. Stott
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself. -- Noam Chomsky
Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation. -- Tom Lantos
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. -- Adam Schiff
To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. -- bell hooks
Some women are great, and you wouldn't have been able to get to where you are without them, and others are doing what they can to undermine you. -- Amy Heckerling
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter. -- Germaine Greer
It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country. -- Trevor Manuel
In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Vanity and narcissism "? the compulsive need to be admired and praised "? undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own. -- Rollo May
Of course, the new domestic paramilitary forces will also undermine free speech and dissent with the threat of force while simultaneously threatening core civil liberties, rights and civic responsibilities. -- Henry Giroux
All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power, -- Ron Paul
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights. -- Donna Brazile
Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society. -- Bruce Schneier
We still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others, and that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine. -- Peter Sutherland

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