Quotes About Denial

What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

Placing effort in denying to assume responsibility is often more of a burden than just actually assuming the responsibility.

Self respect gives us true awareness about ourselves and is the foundation for self-love. When you are not in denial about yourself and know who you are you can accept yourself more. Try to keep a sense of humor, compassion, and love and respect towards all. Don't hold anything back from yourself as the relationship with yourself is the most important.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.

our planet is going to hell. But it's all OK, because it helps the growth figures.

Why doesn't anyone ask me anything about the last two years?" I asked her. "The answer is very simple. We're afraid to ask because we're afraid of knowing... Maybe if we don't talk about it, and maybe if we pretend it never happened, it will be forgotten.

no hay peor sordo que el que quiere oír

Scandalous stories of extramarital affairs and abortions persisted in circulating, but that was largely because she made no attempt to deny the rumors, since they were true.

Denial, particularly self-denial, is its own kind of pleasure.

Do you know what the first poet said about our kind, young Ren? 'Cats are the great mystery, born in that space where shadow meets light ... that borderland of dreams and death, and death and life. No door is closed against us. No secret can defy us. We exist in every world, every universe, every possibility. We cannot be denied, not even by the dead.' We are magnificent, Ren Mormorian. We are fucking glorious.

He is not my father." "So said every unhappy daughter.

This lack of support is not simply an absence of encouragement. It can be as deep as the outright denial of some particular way in which we want to express ourselves.

A man will not believe something that his livelihood depends on his not believing.

Satan, the master deceiver, works best when he is underestimated, ignored, or denied.

Far from being a line of demarcation against Trump, January 6 would result in a rehabilitation of the former president that would propel a narrative of denial, lies, and autocratic intolerance of dissent that has become the hallmark of the GOP.

This is classic denial: no one wants to hold a mental image of themselves as bad or evil, so immoral acts are necessarily dressed up in a cloak of intellectual self-justification.