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Tag Name "Insidious" (70)

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Large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst investments after long periods of winning.
William Eckhardt
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
Seneca the Younger
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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
Terence McKenna
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There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
Tom Robbins
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Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
William Arthur Ward
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[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.
Nat Hentoff
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Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.
Edgar Cayce
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The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
Natalie Angier
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And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
Elie Wiesel
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Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
Olympia Snowe
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
George Washington
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The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.
Phillip Lopate
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Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.
James Howard Kunstler
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We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.
Robert Greene
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Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
James Stewart
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
Salman Rushdie
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We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.
Jennifer Beals
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I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
John Ratzenberger
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
Aberjhani
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There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.
Kevin DeYoung
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
Alan Cooper
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Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.
Lebbeus Woods
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Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
Alan Moore
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a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
Louis MacNeice
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