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Letter "D" » discrediting
«Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.»
Author: Frederick Scott Oliver
| About:
Celebrity
| Keywords:
discredit, discredited, discrediting, ruining
«Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.»
Author: Haile Selassie
(Emperor, Statesman)
| Keywords:
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«Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.»
Author: Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
(Emperor, Social Reformer)
| About:
Human Rights,
Morality,
Race,
Song Lyrics,
War
| Keywords:
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«Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
bombs, deaf, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, hijack, hijacked, hijacking, intolerable, reduced, terrorists, time bomb, transmit
«Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job»
Author: Neal Boortz
| About:
Greed
| Keywords:
achiever, achievers, acquired, anti, application, capabilities, capitalists, commonly, decision making, denigrate, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, greed, job application, Liberals, Losers, skills
«The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
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«Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
belief system, capitalist, comforts, considerations, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, materialistic, motivated, primarily, vulgar
«Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned...WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafari.»
Author: Bob Marley
(Composer, Guitarist, Singer)
| About:
Philosophy,
War
| Keywords:
abandoned, came out, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, inferior, prophecy, Rastafari
«When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Action,
Circumstances,
Men
| Keywords:
composition, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, dove, grain, serpent, The Dove
«Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
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