Quotes with denial

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  • Annie Besant Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Germaine Greer Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Theodore Parker Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Oscar Wilde Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boy George She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bob Inglis 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.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun 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.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Thornton T. Munger The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Barbara Boxer The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • John Sterling The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
    Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Gail Sheehy There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Sir Walter Scott There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Atom Egoyan You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
    Love All the People
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Caitlin Doughty In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Bell Hooks To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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