Best 655 quotes in «denial quotes» category

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

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

Self-denial is the best riches.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

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.

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

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

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

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.

That which is denied cannot be healed.

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

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

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

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 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 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 oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI...(NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation...This kind of fraud which I expressed...and which was openly published...has...not resulted in any denial.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

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.

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

There has to be some self-denial.

There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.