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Quotes About Negation

The No filled the whole air of the house. Every time she breathed in she breathed in that No.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Sören Kierkegaard wrote, "Once you label me, you negate me." When the individual must live up to the label, the self ceases to exist. The same is true of self-labels. You could be negating yourself by identifying with your trademarks, rather than your own potential for growth.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Sören Kierkegaard wrote, "Once you label me, you negate me.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Spontaneity at all levels is guided by the goal of getting it right; being clearly "forced" to come to some conclusion is not its negation, but its highest fulfillment.
~ Charles Taylor
I feel in love with black; it contained all color. It wasn't a negation of color…Black is the most aristocratic color of all…You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing.
~ Louise Nevelson
Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.
~ H. Stuart Hughes
Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.
~ Hannah Arendt
La acción de impedir los beneficios del otro mediante una creíble capacidad para detener la agresión en sus fases iniciales se conoció como «disuasión por negación»,[5] mientras que el aumento de los costes se denominó «disuasión por castigo». La negación era esencialmente otra palabra para denominar «defensa efectiva», la cual, si se comunicaba con suficiente antelación podía proporcionar un argumento convincente contra la agresión
~ Lawrence Freedman
Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.
~ lee jennette
In a manner of speaking," I said, using one of my favorite ways of saying "No, you are wrong.
~ Lemony Snicket
I want nothing. There is no pizza. There is no you, no me, no us, no pizza. And don't ever call me again, you scummy, slimy fungus-ridden dog turd, piece of fly crud.
~ Janet Evanovich
Os padrões psicológicos são muito claros. Quando uma pessoa diz "Não" e acredita realmente no que está a dizer, ele ou ela estão a fazer muito mais do que simplesmente pronunciar uma palavra de três letras. Todo o organismo – glandular, nervoso, muscular – se congrega numa condição de rejeição.
~ Dale Carnegie
Once you label me you negate me.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.
~ Chris Bohjalian
No," she said again, just because it felt good to say no to this person
~ Helene Tursten
The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
~ Charles Simmons
Olumsuzlama dünyan?n en basit ÅŸeyidir. Bu yüzden hedefte anlaÅŸamayan büyük kitleler burda buluÅŸur.
~ Jean Baudrillard
não há equivalente ao caráter cego, não-representativo, desprovido de sentido, do ato terrorista, senão o comportamento cego, desprovido de sentido e além da representação que é o das massas. Eles têm isso de comum porque são a forma atual mais radical, mais exacerbada, de negação de qualquer sistema representativo.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Nothingness stands at the origin of negative judgment because it is itself negation. It founds the negation as an act because it is the negation of being.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
What is 'no'? Either you have asked the wrong question or you have asked the wrong person. Find a way to get the 'yes'.
~ Jeanette Winterson
From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and which means the negation of the world in its essential structure.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.
~ Jeanette Lee