Discredit Quotes - Page 2

• People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.

  Jay Roach

  Civilization, People, Problem

  Source: deadline.com

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• It's a very scary time for a lot of people; they feel scared to speak up. There's so much controversy even speaking up about politics to begin with. People try to discredit you at every single corner, especially if you're a woman. So it's hard as an artist to really speak up about this kind of stuff when you're trying to be successful and have a career.

  Lauren Jauregui

  Successful, Artist, Careers

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Land, Yugoslavia

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• I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

  Al Sharpton

  Victim, Conferences, Prosecutor

  "Michael Brown Grand Jury Process ‘Should Be Indicted,’ Family Lawyer Says" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?

  Barbara Marciniak

  Thinking, Ideas, Credit

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.43, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Let's give discredit where discredit is due.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Giving, Dues

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• That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the Planet: there, the 'human rights' are used to discredit uncomfortable, even 'hostile' governments through countless implants like NGOs.

  Andre Vltchek

  Rights, Government, West

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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

  Thinking, Winning, Discredit You

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• At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fall, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

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• What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Crazy, Writing, Discredit You

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Guitar, People, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We have talked about revoking French citizenship for some individuals. Therefore, I have decided to apply for citizenship, which in a way points out the contradictions of this bill that states the forfeiture of French citizenship exclusively to individuals holding dual nationalities. Through this application, I put myself in the midst of the French political debate and discredit everything that might be said against me about this matter.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Political, Might, Bills

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

  Alexander Pope

  Hurt, Lawyer, Scribes

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.111

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• Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

  Mitch Horowitz

  Ideas, Mind, Mystical

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

  John Ruskin

  Choices, Understanding, Weakness

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.195

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• If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist scientists are trying to discredit the Bible, then you've already got a ton of people on your side who are concerned about heresy, other religions, or teaching evolution in schools.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Atheist, Teaching, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Home, Views, Games

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• We do know from our intelligence community that Russia had a design to discredit the U.S. elections, and took sides in favor of Mr. Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. We do now that they engaged individuals and entities to do cyber-attacks to get as much information as they possibly could, and of course, also used WikiLeaks to accumulate information, and released it in a strategic way that could affect our election, and certainly the credibility of our election.

  Ben Cardin

  Design, Community, Election

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Christian, Disgrace, Christianity

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.

  Alvin Plantinga

  Religious, Way, Doe

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.167, Oxford University Press

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• Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

  Ben Jonson

  Punishment, Funeral, Physicians

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.108

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• And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Littles, Faults

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American Indian Movement as some adverse entity, as opposed to it being a manifestation of the desperations of a whole race of people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Race, People, Effort

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• ...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Children, Struggle, Mean

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• It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Climate Change

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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