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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. -- Katherine Anne Porter
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues. -- Ken Livingstone
The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world. -- Diane Watson
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. -- Mike Quigley
There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11. -- Noam Chomsky
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth. -- Robert Reich
Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes. -- Vladimir Putin
The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women. -- Helen Mirren
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion. -- Samuel Alito
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. -- Stewart Udall
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. -- Stockwell Day
Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil. -- Jo Ann Emerson
We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined. -- Sharon Salzberg
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. -- Ludwig Quidde
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.' -- Robert Byrd
You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented, privatised or undermined. I am personally committed to an NHS which gives equal access, and excellent care. -- Andrew Lansley
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem. -- Alex Gibney
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. -- George Soros
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility. -- Terry Eagleton
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. -- George Papandreou
America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends. -- John Olver
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids. -- Michelle Obama
This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise. -- John Sarbanes
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. -- Graham Joyce
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. -- Andrew Weil
The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.' -- Bob Barr
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. -- Albert Camus
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined. -- Alan Greenspan
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. -- Stewart Udall
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail. -- Helen Keller
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. -- Gloria Steinem
When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well. -- Desmond Tutu
Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts. -- Sergei Lavrov
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained. -- Daniel Kahneman
We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love. -- Henry David Thoreau
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. -- Alex Gibney
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures. -- Michael Eisner
While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years. -- Ernest Istook
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined. -- David Horowitz
The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined. -- Rebecca Solnit
I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing. -- Christopher Moore
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined. -- Alan Hollinghurst
Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country. -- Mona Charen
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined. -- Hilary Kornblith
Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability -- Gordon Brown
The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated. -- Desmond Tutu
It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within. -- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew -- Liz W. Garcia
We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did to [Barack] Obama. -- Jane Mayer
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined. -- Kode9
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out. -- Aime Cesaire
Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet. -- Luke Harding
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces. -- Michael Parenti
In an odd way, we have really destroyed two of our strongest allies against the Islamists. Saddam Hussein, and we've probably fatally undermined Bashir al Assad in Syria. -- Michael Scheuer
The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined. -- Emma Goldman
Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined. -- Ellen G. White
Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect! -- Dick Morris
Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step. -- Ludwig von Mises
An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government. -- George Papandreou
I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature. -- Peter Breggin
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio. -- Kenny Marchant
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood? -- Clara Zetkin
Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records? -- Ezra Taft Benson
When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood â?? a truly free society. -- Emma Goldman
It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting. -- Philip Pullman
Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress. -- Charles Dickens
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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