Erode Quotes

“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his intellectuality would, sooner or later, erode his faith or erode whatever he'd masked it with . . . For example, intellectuals like to dress themselves up as peasants . . . but it never works. The intellectual's constitution is impervious to such things - it permits only one object of worship - oneself. Generally speaking, an intellectual in the contemporary version is an exceptionally resourceful and, essentially, pitiful being.”

“Time erodes us all.”

“Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.”

“Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.”

“Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.”

“Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.”

“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”

“Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.”

“If someone lies to you habitually, you can't ever trust them. It erodes relationships.”