Quotes with deny

Quotes 41 till 60 of 69.

  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Barbara Delinsky Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • James Baldwin Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Ayn Rand Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ayn Rand Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
    Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • William Shakespeare Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou,
    Romeo?
    Deny thy father, and refuse thy name…
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Augustus William Hare Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend. They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Baz Luhrmann Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Stephen Bayley The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • A. N. Wilson The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Richard Nixon The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Lord Acton The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • George Orwell The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Leigh Hunt The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Bell Hooks The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Lord George Byron There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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