Best 655 quotes in «denial quotes» category

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

Republicans are afraid to act in accordance with the election results. Republicans seem to be in denial about election results. It's one thing for Democrats to be in denial about the Republican electoral juggernaut, but it's strange that Republicans are in denial about it too.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Self-denial is the best riches.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!

Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Some great experiences I've had and little by little I've come to the realization that everything Frank Zappa told me was the truth, whether I wanted to believe it or not. You know, I was young and naive or in denial. But he really was a special, special human being.

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.

That certain snobbery of certainly the Parisian - combined with a complete denial of your historical legacy, is just awful. That's a funny thing about France. Saul Bellow wrote somewhere that he saw right through the French. He lived there. He wrote The Adventures of Augie March in Paris, and there's no one better than him to say what's unbearable about the French.

That which is denied cannot be healed.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.