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• 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

  Taken, Independent Women, May

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.274, Random House

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• The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

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• If we think there is an undermining now, just wait if Sharia is adopted or utilized by justices in the United States.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Justice, Waiting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Causes, Emotion

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• Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Christian, Hate, Responsibility

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1987). “My life in pictures”

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• We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Done, Earth

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• Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of the race; just as religion cannot be amalgamated with the scheming of political parties.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Party, Race

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 3 - "Political Reflections Arising Out of My Sojourn in Vienna", 1925.

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• The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

  A.C. Grayling

  Media, Order, Anxiety

  A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Nature, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.30, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the church's credibility.

  Pope Francis

  Faithful, Church, Life Is

  "Pope Francis to priests: Practice what you preach". www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2013.

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• There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Wall, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

  Jay Michaelson

  America, Promise, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Sole and self-commanded works,
  Fears not undermining days,
  Grows by decays,
  And, by the famous might that lurks
  In reaction and recoil,
  Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Flames, Ice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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• Trump's rhetoric is undermining America's credibility, undermining America's leadership and strength in Europe, even without him being president. The rhetoric itself is very damaging. Obviously, if you were to try to implement any of that rhetoric as president, it would be catastrophic for America's interests.

  Derek Chollet

  Europe, America, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Identity, Generations

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• The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.

  A. O. Scott

  Fun, Taken, Thinking

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• We need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Support, Survival, Needs

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part of the people, as establishing a precedent for the entrance of a most dangerous complicity between Church and State, thereby subtly undermining the foundation of liberty, so carefully laid by the wisdom of our fathers.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Religious, Father, People

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• The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Christian, Religious, Tumbling Down

  Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim”, p.61, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, President, Parenthood

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• The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.

  George Orwell

  Blow, Moon, Echoes

  George Orwell (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This president [Barack Obama] is undermining the constitutional basis of this government. This president is undermining our military. He is undermining our standing in the world....The damage he has done to America is extraordinary.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, Government, America

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• It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to see our society break down to the extent that that foundational unit of the family that is the hope of survival of this country is diminished to the extent that it literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

  Trent Franks

  Running, Country, Long

  "Rep. Trent Franks Calls Marriage Equality A “Threat To The Nation’s Survival”". www.rightwingwatch.org. October 28, 2011.

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• Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.

  Lester R. Brown

  Fall, Ice, Fire

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• The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Crazy, Blessed

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