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Quotes About Undermines

By destroying the non-capitalist milieu on which its expansion is based, capitalism undermines the conditions of its own growth.
~ Karl Marx
Drafting local police into Trump's immigration crackdown undermines public safety and is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.
~ Kevin de Leon
Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.
~ Jed Diamond
The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.
~ Deborah Tannen
The 'Welfare Reform and Work' Bill does nothing to address low wages, or underemployment, and I haven't even got started on how it undermines the provision of affordable housing.
~ Emily Thornberry
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
~ Christopher Lasch
A library undermines whatever order it might possess, with random pairings and casual fraternities.
~ Alberto Manguel
It is an argument for moral equivalence, an argument that undermines faith, hope, and the belief that we can live up to the language of our Constitution.
~ Anne Applebaum
Inviting a foreign head of state to address the Congress is a clear breach of protocol and practice, and undermines the U.S. presidency.
~ Marcia Fudge
I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.
~ Tom Cole
In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
There is a difference between compromise and compromising. One allows for negotiation. The other undermines who you are.
~ Ronlyn Domingue
Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.
~ Yasmina Reza
Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.
~ John Piper
Under his breath, he repeated the words of Xenophon: "Anger undermines effective communication with your horse.
~ Jojo Moyes
The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility. Our
~ Michael Pollan
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust.
~ Ari Melber
There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.
~ B.G. Bowers, Death and Life
The feminine is treacherous by its very nature. It undermines and hollows out. It's poison for the masculine brain, for the brain as a whole, for the masculine.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Modern life undermines any attempt at building communities and making connections with people without commerce.
~ Dawn Foster
Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.
~ Patrick Leahy
Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.
~ Noam Chomsky
Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.
~ Elizabeth A. Johnson