Top Pernicious Quotes
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan Bloom
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Ernestine Rose
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg
No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Martin Van Buren
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All Pernicious Quotes
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan Bloom 
56% of people like this quote
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
54% of people like this quote
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Ernestine Rose
52% of people like this quote
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg
50% of people like this quote
No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Martin Van Buren
50% of people like this quote
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Leo Tolstoy
49% of people like this quote
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
Thabo Mbeki
45% of people like this quote