95 Undermining Quotes
Following is our list of undermining quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about undermining others.
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Famous Undermining Quotes
People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated. — Ivanka Trump
Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling. — Sun Tzu
Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there. — Wole Soyinka
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side. — Robert Greene
It's always good to be underestimated. — Donald Trump
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly. — Patricia Hill Collins
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. — Dalai Lama
The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling. — Ovid
The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in. — Chris Voss
The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. — Calista Flockhart
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. — Milton Friedman
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. — Graham Greene
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is giving the other side the illusion of control. — Chris Voss
The Administrative state more effectively controls its puppets when they are hollowed-out husks of themselves. — Vivek Ramaswamy
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. — C. S. Lewis
Short Undermining Quotes
- Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism. — Benazir Bhutto
- Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face. — William Bridges
- Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl
- I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits. — Bernard Moitessier
- Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage. — Michael Hyatt
- You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime. — Thomas Paine
- It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future — Desmond Tutu
- I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. — Vaclav Klaus
- The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. — Louis D. Brandeis
- I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America. — Richard Rodriguez
Undermining Someone Quotes
Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to undermine his authority. — William H. McRaven
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage. — George Carey
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. — Evgeny Morozov
Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own. — Rollo May
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success. — David Brooks
When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well. — Desmond Tutu
The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think it’s almost imperative that you identify an audience so you can confirm or challenge or undermine whatever ideas or prejudices they might have about your subject. — Pankaj Mishra
The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and undermine the more natural parts of being a person — Hozier
Undermining Others Quotes
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. — Maurice Strong
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states. — Omar Bongo
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Money is a messaging system that is much higher signal than speech, so free speech will inevitably be undermined in any society lacking a free market for money, as proceeds stolen through inflation are inevitably used to fund censorship, propaganda, and other psychological operations. — Robert Breedlove
Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. — Brian Dyson
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself. — Noam Chomsky
The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom. — Shannon Alder
Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling. — Pam Brown
We still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others, and that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine. — Peter Sutherland
Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence. — Guy Debord
Undermining Authority Quotes
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE. — Sid Vicious
Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism. — Margaret Sanger
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust. — Bill Bradley
It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined. — Emma Goldman
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. — Hannah Arendt
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism. — Muriel Spark
People Writing About Undermining
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Chris Voss |
137 | 1 |
 Ivanka Trump |
84 | 454 |
 Sun Tzu |
454 | 6304 |
 Wole Soyinka |
149 | 1610 |
 Robert Greene |
290 | 2290 |
 Donald Trump |
3420 | 6584 |
More Undermining Quotes
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. — Bell Hooks
When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. — Ray Allen
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual - and hence social - confidence while undermining that of women. — Naomi Wolf
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based. — Thomas Piketty
The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security. — Mary Landrieu
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. — Naomi Wolf
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. — Daniel Boone
The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization. — Max Baucus
I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them. — Barbara Kruger
The narrow conception of happiness that most of us have by default is something we’re tying to defend against all of the other things in life that are threatening to undermine it. The one obvious point is that it’s not a safe play. It’s perpetually under threat. Any joy you can feel, by virtue of it having arisen, based on some causes and conditions, is going to pass away. — Peter Attia
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. — Theodore Roosevelt
I support adjustments designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of regulation without sacrificing safety and soundness or undermining macroprudential goals. — Jerome Powell
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained. — Daniel Kahneman
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out. — Aime Cesaire
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind. — Malcolm Muggeridge
I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November. — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. — Azar Nafisi
The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young. — Arno C. Gaebelein
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. — Graham Joyce
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.' — Robert Byrd
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. — George W. Bush
The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline. — Debbie Stabenow
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. — Ludwig Quidde
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery. — Andrei Sakharov
Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have. — Dennis Prager
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor. — Giambattista Basile
Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated. — Martin Seligman
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault. — Norman Finkelstein
In America, we have anti-nepotism laws in the federal government and in lots of state governments, because the practice of hiring relatives undermines public confidence that the government official is actually finding best person for the job. — Kathleen Clark
Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem. — Thomas Keating
Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions. — Dalai Lama
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain. — Thomas Sowell
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments. — Charles Carroll of Carrollton
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