Insidious Quotes

• How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Get

• That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Depression
  • Survive
  • Insidious

• All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Phenomenon
  • Psychedelic
  • Delusion

• There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Race
  • Profit
  • Blindness

• John McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Regime
  • Senators
  • Insidious

• habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Passion
  • Habit
  • Thug

• Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Secret

• The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing after many of their false claims. That's not a virtuous news cycle. It's an insidious one.

  

  David Folkenflik
  • Helping
  • Claims
  • Virtuous

• A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

  

  Wangechi Mutu
  • Culture
  • Influence
  • Invisible

• The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Night
  • Littles

• The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.

  

  Teju Cole
  • War
  • Modern
  • Buttons

• One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.

  

  Karen MacNeil
  • Reading
  • Literature
  • Writers

• What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has become a commodity. It's all a way to trick young people into believing that there's something unique about what they do, but this is all completely a corporately designed maneuver.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Believe
  • Commodity
  • Insidious

• Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Television
  • Drug