Erode Quotes

• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

  Ugo Betti

  Memories, Distance, Stones

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• The government continues to erode our freedom.

  Diane Black

  Government

  "Q&A: Rep. Diane Black on the White House's contraceptives mandate". Interview with Sarah Kliff, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.

  Bob Riley

  Country, Jesus, Rain

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• When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Jobs, Law, Police

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• To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

  Grace Napolitano

  Security Systems, Causes, Earning

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• The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

  Tim Holden

  Attitude, Holocaust, Events

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• Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

  John Frankenheimer

  Technology, Keys, Creative

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• Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

  Ralph Nader

  Political, Democracy, Serious

  "Nader rejects concerns he could help elect Bush". www.cnn.com. October 31, 2000.

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• The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

  William Hague

  July, Cities, Political

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• Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

  Joseph Badaracco

  Important, Hoarding, Way

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• When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Liars, Lying, People

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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• We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

  Barbara Jordan

  Men, Want, Fighter

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.

  Julian Barnes

  Age, Looks, Fifty

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• The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Men, Judging

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• All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

  John Stossel

  Rights, Erosion, Government

  FaceBook post by John Stossel from Mar 29, 2013

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• So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had been invaded by time. But do you think you're free? I think I recognize the patterns of my nature. Bud do you think you're free? I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

  Louise Glück

  Wall, Taken, Thinking

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• I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security.

  Ron Paul

  Phones, Government, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden Is A Ron Paul Supporter" By Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2013.

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• Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

  Janet Poppendieck

  Democracy, Charity, Vigorous

  Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.255, Penguin

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• It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.

  Esther Dyson

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

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• Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Honesty, Lying, Character

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• There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Political, Acid, Correctness

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• So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and perhaps the most dangerous kind. For in letting ourselves forget about the common threads of our innermost wishes, we erode our foundations and lose the keystone of our souls.

  Tiffany Baker

  Believe, Common Threads, Soul

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• Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Long, People

  "No End in Sight". www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Focus, Imperfection, Enemy

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• Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Expansion, Misguided

  "Safety concerns put liberty at risk / Terrorism tips lawmakers toward giving authorities more power" by Marc Sandalow and Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. September 22, 2001.

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