Malcolm Gladwell

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

Canadian Author

James Jones

You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.

American Author

Noreena Hertz

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

English Author

Leo Tolstoy

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Russian Novelist

Andrew Neil

When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.

British Journalist

Joseph Heller

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

American Novelist

Noam Chomsky

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

American Activist

Roger Scruton

Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence.

English Philosopher

Pierce Brosnan

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

Irish Actor

Edward Zwick

Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.

American Director

Something pernicious can seem secure at first, but its harm slowly becomes apparent over time.

Insidious Nature

When something is pernicious, the damage is often recognized when it's already too late to avoid.

Late Detection

Pernicious rumors or misinformation can cause serious, often unseen, social or emotional harm.

Dangerous Rumors

Using 'pernicious' hints at significant trouble or consequences, not mild or slight harm.

Seriousness Implied

Pernicious can describe threats that are deadly serious, not just inconvenient or problematic.

Lethal Threats

In academics, 'pernicious' is often used to describe harmful effects on research or learning.

Academic Caution

Pernicious emphasizes immediacy—an impending negative impact requiring urgent attention.

Imminent Danger

 get when you go to college where you do kind of get a mix of people that you might not interact with otherwise but the point is this is all good news because when something is predictable it's what I call design a book we can start thinking about solutions to solving that problem even a problem is pernicious and as intractable as racism

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 where you do get a mix of people that you might not interact with otherwise. But the point is, this is all good news, because when something is predictable, it is what I call designable. You can start thinking about solutions to solving that problem, even if the problem is pernicious and as intractable as racism.

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 them out but give them some respect i think one of the things we need to get away from are these binaries that we create about sharks they're beautiful or they're scary you know they're ferocious or they're cuddly i think these these narratives where we try and defang them are just as pernicious as these

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 In other cities, they required two jitney drivers for one jitney. But there was a really interesting regulation which was they had to put a backseat light -- install it in every Jitney -- to stop a new pernicious innovation which they called spooning.

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 now but that will be disease modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem and attack those glial cells or those pernicious proteins that the glial cells elaborate that spill over and cause the central nervous system wind-up

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 also a storyteller she weaves powerful narratives except instead of doing it to show the truth to actually help make the world a better place she does it to deceive people I mean think about how pernicious she what she's doing is instead of

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 but that resound across all strata of society. Even people at the top experience these outcomes. So what do we do? This cascade of self-perpetuating, pernicious, negative effects could seem like something that's spun out of control,

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 And by pretending that the giant imbalance in power between capital and labor doesn't exist, neoliberal economic theory became essentially a protection racket for the rich. The third assumption, and by far the most pernicious,

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 it is suffering from a second pernicious trend, what I call religious routine-ism. This is when our institutions and our leaders are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory, devoid of life, devoid of vision

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 a pitiable flight from life. As such, it deserves no compassion, it deserves no treatment as minority martyrdom, and it deserves not to be deemed anything but a pernicious sickness."