#undermining

Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists. ↗

— Roy Moore

#anytime #basis #country #deny #entire

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

— Ralph Nader

#basis #democracy #ideals #moral #once

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#avenues #continuing #cooperation #interests #israel

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#i #own #paid #read #regime

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#business #chosen #country #even #fight

Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. ↗

— Patty Murray

#believe #dollars #first #first step #fundamental

...I believe there is a legitimate aim of transcendence that is more modest and perhaps more realistic. We may not be able to rule out the skeptical possibility, and we may not be able to ground our normal capacity for understanding on something in which we can have even greater confidence; but it may still be possible to show how we can reasonably retain our natural confidence in the exercise of understanding, in spite of the apparent contingencies of our nature and formation. The hope is not to discover a foundation that makes our knowledge unassailably secure but to find a way of understanding ourselves that is not radically self-undermining, and that does not require us to deny the obvious. The aim would be to offer a plausible picture of how we fit into the world. Even in this more modest enterprise both theism and naturalistic reductionism fall short. Theism does not offer a sufficiently substantial explanation of our capacities, and naturalism does not offer a sufficiently reassuring one. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#radically-self-undermining #skeptical #nature

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#forces #necessary #peace #terrorism #undermining

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. ↗

— Alistair Darling

#cut #deficits #fragile #global #must

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values. ↗

— George Soros

#american values #bush #endangering #hurting #interests