Quotes About Denial

Religion was a crutch, a way people rationalized away their pain in life, like the slaves yearning for a better existence. A denial. When there is no fear of death, David had told her once, there is no need for religion.

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

We sat at that table, neither able to comfort the other, her remembering being a bystander to my mother's suffering and me suffering because I was denied the experience.

Therefore, the Church of the future, if it is to be effective, must become a place of practical grace. It must be a place where hope is the dominant theme, and denial, especially religious pretending, is nowhere is sight.

The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

The Fifth Amendment speaks specifically to denying someone their life and liberty without due process. That is what H.R. 2 does, and I rise in opposition to it. And I rise in opposition because it is important that we preserve lives and we recognize that 40 million-plus are uninsured.

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them 'in their place' and under control.

The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.

I've never spoken with Michelle Fields.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.