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«Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion»
Author: Allan Bloom | About: Value | Keywords: pernicious
«No evil can result from its (slavery's) inhibition more pernicious than its toleration»
«Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of worship. There is nothing wrong in the former while the latter is no doubt a most pernicious thing. The former is man's respect for which is noble and of which the great men are only an embodiment. The latter is the serf's fealty to his lord. The former is consistent with respect, but the latter is a sign of debasement. The former does not take away one's intelligence to think and independence to act. The latter makes one perfect fool. The former involves no disaster to the state. The latter is a source of positive danger to it.»
«But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.»
«Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.»
«Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy»
«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»
«One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: pernicious
«This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false: its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted; he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever»
«May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!»

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