Quotes About Discredited

My whole education was to make sure I didn't believe things like that. I dismissed all sorts of things that were indigenous in my family -- superstition and discredited information, and that discredited way of knowing that discredited people always have. But when I began to write, that was the place where I had to go. That's where the information was.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

never ceased to amaze him how a discredited philosophy and a repressive nation still attracted idealists.

The possibility exists that information and computer technology could enable Beijing to build a system of 'social credit', analogous to financial credit in the West, that would (in official parlance) 'allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step'.

In this environment – where lies are accepted enthusiastically precisely because they are lies – it is easy to see how the largely discredited theory of Eurasianism could become a central ideological theme, not to mention a strategic doctrine enjoying broad authority among the political elite. In this way, loyalty to a man and a regime has now become supplemented by loyalty to an idea and a set of texts that possibly no one actually believes – not even the authors.

Liberty and equality," said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words were, "high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.

There is probably no part of the civilized world in which Marxism has declined so completely and socialist ideas have been so discredited and turned to ridicule as in the countries of victorious socialism.

Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.

Equality of outcome is a discredited concept, failing on both logical and historical grounds, as anyone knows who has studied the misery of the 20th century.

By the 1800s, animal sacrifice had been largely discredited as a medical procedure; today it is rarely used outside of Miami.

We've all heard the phrase 'equal pay for equal work.' Many of those who habitually repeat this mantra may not realize that it is simply a variation of the discredited labor theory of value (LTV), which is generally associated with Marxian economics.

No longer can a risk to human life be considered subordinate to blind and increasingly discredited ideology.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

If I fail to remove Marcos and vindicate the people's verdict by peaceful, nonviolent action, my methods will be discredited. And if anger persists, I will be marginalized, and others will take over leadership of the movement.

Socialism has been discredited. Plutocracy is in the process of being discredited. Democratic capitalism has yet to be tried.

and Nazism is a problematic brand, discredited on so many levels, and that's an association we do not need. In fact it could really damage us.

Although thoroughly discredited and defanged, the Bund, in the public mind,

There are at least sixteen other Holy Members in Europe. Mostly from mummies, and all equally discredited. But for de Deukans it was simply a collectable, and the religious or indeed human blasphemy it represented had no significance for him. This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.

the medical system, at least here in the U.S., if something is found that works naturally—something that cannot be patented—it is removed from public view as quickly as possible and discredited as ineffective. At the same time, incredibly dangerous and ineffective synthetic drugs are routinely approved by the FDA and prescribed for the public.