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Quotes About Discredit

That forced labor gradually became discredited at the same time as it expanded is surely one of the great paradoxes of world history in the nineteenth century.
~ Adam Rothman
There's a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.
~ Jimmy Carter
If you visit a courtroom you will observe that lawyers apply two styles of criticism: to demolish a case they raise doubts about the strongest arguments that favor it; to discredit a witness, they focus on the weakest part of the testimony
~ Daniel Kahneman
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
***(C)(P) I WILL NOW GIVE A NEW WORD-PLANDEMIC- TO THE BOOKS OF ETYMOLOGY, ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES. IT REFERS TO THE WIDESPREAD PLANS OF SCAMS AND SCHEMES OF BABYLON SYSTEMS TO DESTROY AND TO DISCREDIT ALL THOSE WHO WITH RIGHTEOUS WORKS TRY TO ADVANCE THE IDEALS OF REGGAE AND RASTAFARI.
~ RAS CARDO REGGAE
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
~ George McGovern
There is still an active focus on media propaganda in the U.S. by Intelligence agencies to discredit conspiracy theories and solidify the official version of historical events;
~ Richard Belzer
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.
~ James Branch Cabell
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
~ Mort Sahl
The whole history of the radical past, from Trotsky on, warned that my individual truth would have little effect on the attitude of the left. Confronted by such a truth, the left would seek first to ignore and then to discredit it, because it was damaging to the progressive cause.
~ David Horowitz
The reports that invariably seek to discredit alternative methods of healing are invariably produced by those funded by and answerable to Big Pharma. They are simply there to destroy the opposition and they are in a real panic now with so many people rejecting the scalpel and the drug and using alternative forms of treatment.
~ David Icke
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Weick urges leaders to continually discredit much of what the think they know - to doubt, argue, contradict, disbelieve, counter, challenge, question, vacillate, and even act hypocritically.
~ Douglas Robinson
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
~ William Hague
The concoction of the Protocols was probably the work of the head of the czarist secret police outside Russia, a Paris-based agent named Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky. Borrowing and paraphrasing Machiavelli's speeches without even bothering to change their order and attributing them to a secret Jewish council, Rachkovsky was attempting to discredit Russian liberalism by showing it to be a Jewish plot.
~ Richard Rhodes
Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
monotheists have usually believed that they are in possession of the entire message of the one and only God, they have been compelled to discredit all other religions. Over
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I felt myself tense up, having long noticed that this was something men (and boys, obviously) did after any breakup. Dub their exes "crazy." Discredit them, make it seem as if the men were lucky to have gotten out of the relationship. In fact, Julie had once told me it was the most common narrative in the aftermath of a divorce—the justification men used for their own misconduct. A form of misogyny.
~ Emily Giffin
Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.
~ Mitch Horowitz
It is not surprising, of course, that those who attempt to discredit the evidence of Scripture are the people who themselves do not seriously read, know, or make a thorough study of the Scriptures.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.
~ Vivek Agnihotri
However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you are the sky. A cloud comes and dominates the sky. But the sky is still the sky. Depression tells you everything is going to get worse, but that's a symptom. Don't give depression power - constantly discredit it.
~ Matt Haig
Why distrust the evidence of the Jews? Discredit them and you destroy the Christian religion.
~ Ron Chernow
As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer. Scientists gather evidence, look for regularities, form theories explaining their observations, and test them. Attorneys begin with a conclusion they want to convince others of and then seek evidence that supports it, while also attempting to discredit evidence that doesn't.
~ Leonard Mlodinow