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«Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.»
Author: Frederick Scott Oliver
| About:
Celebrity
| Keywords:
discredit, discredited, discrediting, ruining
«Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.»
Author: Haile Selassie
(Emperor, Statesman)
| Keywords:
discarded, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, mantle, mantled, mantles, predecessor, succeeded, world organization
«Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
bombs, deaf, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, hijack, hijacked, hijacking, intolerable, reduced, terrorists, time bomb, transmit
«Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job»
Author: Neal Boortz
| About:
Greed
| Keywords:
achiever, achievers, acquired, anti, application, capabilities, capitalists, commonly, decision making, denigrate, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, greed, job application, Liberals, Losers, skills
«The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, domain, domains, evolution, examining, forcing, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, inquiry, straitjacket
«Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
belief system, capitalist, comforts, considerations, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, materialistic, motivated, primarily, vulgar
«Alas! the small discredit of a bribe - Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe»
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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All Saints, churches, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, geniuses, hostile, monasteries, monastery, of course, of their own, persecute, persecutes, persecuting, routine, routines, saints, seeing, universities, using, youthful
«The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Historians,
Religion
| Keywords:
conduce, conduced, conduces, discredit, discredited, Eusebius, ingenuously, omitted, piously, tended, tended to
«A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor»
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