Discredit Quotes

• When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, Causes, Innocent

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

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• When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Men, Personality

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.571

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• However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Believe, Islam, Purpose

  "Louis Farrakhan Discusses His Role in the Murder of Malcolm X". www.cnn.com. May 14, 2000.

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• For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

  Chad Hugo

  Opportunity, Trying, Asian

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• Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

  Denis Diderot

  Forever, Trying, Facts

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• Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

  Glenn Beck

  Real, Stupid, Coward

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• Remember this, and remember this well: when someone is telling the TRUTH and exposing information that is meant to be hidden from the masses, the side that is being attacked and accused will use all their resources and associations to try to discredit and discount the professional and moral character of the person revealing the threatening information. They will do everything to make that person look smaller than they really are.

  Suzy Kassem

  Character, Trying, Looks

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• When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

  John Yarmuth

  Reality, Voice, Space

  "Sarah Palin’s Lame Media Strategy" by Sarah Palin’s Lame Media Strategy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Rude, Enemy, Literature

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• Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Order, Differences

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• For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, People, Chaos

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• Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Lying, Light, Hands

  Christina Hoff Sommers (1995). “Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved.  More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it,  dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it.  Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons.  Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints

  Charles Colson

  Powerful, Believe, Book

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.55, Zondervan

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• I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Giving, Tears

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 02, 2011

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• Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.

  Neal Boortz

  Jobs, Skills, Greed

  Attributed to Neal Boortz in "Quotes, Jokes & Anecdotes", edited by Gerard O'Boyle, 2012.

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• If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Hands, Unhappy, Use

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• Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

  John Berger

  Lying, Media, Political

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• Today the discredit of words is very great.

  John Berger

  Hijacking, Today

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• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Church, Saint

  English Traits "Universities" (1856)

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• For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.

  J. I. Packer

  Running, Thinking, Indulge In

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.126, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• No matter what happens, a terror attack in London, a terror hammer attack at Notre Dame in Paris, whatever it is, if you want to understand the left's reaction to it, you need to be able to put yourself in their shoes and find a way to blame Trump for it and then to use the event to get rid of or discredit Trump, because that's what all of this is about.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Blame, Terror

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Political, Use

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• I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults I've met, because they haven't let any insecurities or doubts about themselves get in the way of their thoughts.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Wise, Teenager, Thinking

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• But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Logic, Sole

  James Branch Cabell (2008). “Between Dawn and Sunrise”, p.14, Wildside Press LLC

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• I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, People, Want

  "American Experience". www.pbs.org.

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