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Quotes About Repudiation

Phooey, I say, and again phooey!
~ Adolf Hitler
Unlike other sins, however, despair is by tradition the sole sin that cannot be forgiven; it is the conviction that one is damned absolutely, thus a repudiation of the Christian Saviour and a challenge to God's infinite capacity for forgiveness.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Hey man! Get away from me!
~ Mickey Mantle
One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I didn't read the book. I burned it after the first sentence.
~ Rodindeadpan
We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018.
~ Ben Domenech
No buts, Ben. No. 'N' and 'O' spells 'no'.
~ David Walliams
Si las palabras tienen una memoria similar, no hay duda de que la palabra «no» es la que más cadáveres tiene en su activo.
~ Amelie Nothomb
The Tenth Congress was a political setback for Trotsky. He came out a loser in the trade union controversy, and the NEP was implicitly a repudiation of the line that he had publicly been taking in economic policy.
~ Robert C. Tucker
Nah you didn't
~ Devour Silent
Nu toÈ›i oamenii au curajul s? fie fericiÈ›i.Dac? d? fericirea peste ei, o repudiaz?.Fiindc? vor s? fie nefericiÈ›i, chiar dac? în fond nu sunt; pentru c? ei nefericirea reprezint? adev?rata fericire.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.
~ Robert M. Price
The most interesting aspect of this culture of repudiation has been the attack on the central place accorded to reason in human affairs by the writers, philosophers and political theorists of the Enlightenment. The old
~ Roger Scruton
Verificationism arose in Vienna between the wars, as part of the 'culture of repudiation' whereby central Europe threw away its inheritance and committed moral suicide.
~ Roger Scruton
Praise is the great act of rebellion against sin, the great repudiation of our wicked refusal to acknowledge God to be the Lord.
~ John B. Webster
Some views are truly bad enough that they deserve repudiation rather than accommodation. To
~ John Corvino
We were tolerated. and that is unforgivable. If you cannot accept a man wholeheartedly, then you should have the fortitude to repudiate him. Kwame in "The two hearts of Kwasi Boachi
~ Arthur Japin
Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
~ Marianne Williamson
Solzhenitsyn described this: It would be hard to identify the exact source of that inner intuition, not founded on rational argument, which prompted our refusal to enter the NKVD schools… People can shout at you from all sides: 'You must!' And your own head can be saying also: 'You must!' But inside your breast there is a sense of revulsion, repudiation. I don't want to. It makes me feel sick. Do what you want without me; I want no part of it.
~ Jonathan Glover
The most decisive repudiation of eugenics invokes classical liberal and libertarian principles: government is not an omnipotent ruler over human existence but an institution with circumscribed powers, and perfecting the genetic makeup of the species is not among them.
~ Steven Pinker
Prior to the days of the Soviets, a woman could be repudiated for any reason. Her jewels, inherited from her mother, were therefore her only worldly possessions and her sole safety net and source of independence, should she need it. So she always kept them on her person. Although repudiation is now a thing of the past, brides continue the tradition by donning all their jewelry for the wedding.
~ Bernard Ollivier
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
~ Horace Mann
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the spring-boards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine
~ Henry David Thoreau