Eroded Quotes

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. - Karl Marx

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger. - John Stossel

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. - Neil Gaiman

[The president's many visits to the Gulf Coast seem to have shored up, at least somewhat, his eroded standing. In the NEWSWEEK Poll, his job-approval rating inched up two points, to a still-dismal 40 percent. But, safely back in the White House, he now has to deal with another disaster area: Republican Washington. The list of official inquiries is long and growing, involving issues ranging from arguably excusable bureaucratic mismanagement to insider trading to allegations of lawbreaking that potentially lead to the highest levels of the White House staff.] Look, the Democrats' numbers are just as low as the Republicans' are... People see a lot of this stuff just as 'more Washington.' But the danger for Republicans and for Bush is that there are too many things they can't controland the odds are that all of them aren't going to work out in their favor. - James Carville

[Johnson?s father, who had a fourth-grade education, worked all his life at a creosote plant operating on the banks of the creek. He took the little bit of money he made to feed his family and buy a piece of land.] By the time he retired... his lungs were completely eroded, eaten up. He just made 70. - Rose Johnson

[As for himself, the hurricane and flood have eroded any ambitions he had for an early retirement, and he harbors little hope for the city to be rebuilt within two years.] I cau't wait two or three years for the city to come back... u'm 48 years old and iu's freaking me out (having to relocate), but I just love it up here. I tell my mom it may end up being the worst decision I make in my life, but for now u'm happy. - Stephen Lucas