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  • Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative. -- Jamais Cascio
  • Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief. -- Dan Brown
  • If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable. -- Najib Razak
  • Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie. -- Shane Black
  • I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike. -- Koren Zailckas
  • Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
  • Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing. -- Bob Barr
  • Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy. -- Robert Reich
  • Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. -- George Soros
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall. -- John Berger
  • Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society -- Gordon B. Hinkley
  • Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • The way you think either expresses or undermines faith. -- Bill Johnson
  • [Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming. -- Clare Short
  • Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you. -- Yasmina Reza
  • Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education. -- Diane Ravitch
  • For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires. -- Sallust
  • Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect. -- Barack Obama
  • The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility. -- Randal Marlin
  • An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world. -- Ellen Tauscher
  • Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face. -- William Bridges
  • Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market. -- Joseph Stiglitz
  • Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy. -- George Packer
  • The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party. -- David Frum
  • Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. -- Joseph Joubert
  • Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. -- Anthony Biglan
  • Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
  • Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness. -- Elizabeth A. Johnson
  • I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension. -- David Twohy
  • Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. -- John Paul Stevens
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself. -- Russell Kirk
  • [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
  • 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
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  • I mean, [tweeting] just - it makes you wonder about whatever else Donald trump is doing. It undermines much more than just a single tweet. -- Chuck Todd
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 M.D.
  • In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations -- John Warren Kindt
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 M. Christensen
  • 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 M. Christensen
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Akrawi
  • 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
  • When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them. -- Barack Obama
  • 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
  • We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good. -- Robert M. Pirsig
  • 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
  • President Obama's executive actions give work permits and federal entitlement benefits to people illegally in America - in direct violation of the laws passed by Congress. This undermines the entire constitutional system of government. -- Donald Trump
  • Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of a nation and of its citizens. In simpler words, socialism makes people worse. -- Dennis Prager
  • 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
  • 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
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