Undermining Quotes

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Jacob M. Appel
“The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.”
Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home

Iris Murdoch
“She was a spoiler, a needler, an underminer, a diminisher, simply by instinct.”
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Is Illuminati real or it is our way of undermining each others success?”
Unarine Ramaru

“Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.”
Anthony Corlisatra

Anne Applebaum
“If it happens, the fall of liberal democracy in our own time will not look as it did in the 1920s or 1930s. But it will still require a new elite, a new generation of clercs, to bring it about. The collapse of an idea of the West, or of what is sometimes called "the Western liberal order," will need thinkers, intellectuals, journalists, bloggers, writers, and artists to undermine our current values, and then to imagine the new system to come.”
Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Krystelle Bamford
“Anyway, because of Beezy’s patrician vibe and the fact that our parents grew up in a very horses-and-beeswax part of an already pretty aristocratic area of the state, you would have thought they were marked for success. You would have thought they couldn’t have avoided it! But well into their youth each of the five really did their utmost to scupper their own chances in life in utterly idiosyncratic ways, which is the usual province of the middle-to-upper-middle class. We didn’t realize this at the time, of course. To us, our parents were doing just fine.”
Krystelle Bamford, Idle Grounds