Erode Quotations

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

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

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

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

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.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

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.

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

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

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

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

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.

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.

An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.

Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.

If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.

The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.