#undermine

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#doing #need #others #people #rationalizations

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#also #art #consumption #corporate #frankenstein

If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#come #cut #decades #entire #failed

We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#citizen #military #military bases #moving #nation

We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#drain #entire #explain #face #first

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #attained #case #country #disarmament

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. ↗

— Jean Philippe Rameau

#common #cries #emotive #emphasis #first

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #being #demean #eyes #him

The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#america #budget #discipline #economy #ensure

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#enemy #fort #kentucky #our #river