Quotes with refusing

  • In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.
  • A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

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  • C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
    The problem of pain p. 41
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Anna Louise Strong Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Caleb Cushing If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Baruch Spinoza In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Burgess Owens It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Plato One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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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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  • Buddy Wakefield We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.
    On Spoken Word Introduction (Some They Cant Contain)
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Alan Cohen You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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