Quotes About Refusal

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Seriously? You won't help me?" "Help yourself get killed? No, I won't.

the hours elapsed would in part be voided by the crossing, always westerly, of time zones. From Saskatchewan we'd get to Mongolia, we figured, having lost only two or three hours riding the Arctic Circle. We would oppose turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

and the refusal of the Roosevelt administration to recognise the Japanese government imposed on Manchuria.

I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge.

I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

And tell them that I will not come today. "Cannot" is false, and that I dare not, falser. I will not come today. Tell them so

No, for then we should be colliers.

depended. On this point we should never have given way, but the refusal would have been bitterly resented by our struggling Ally, and would have poisoned all our relations. It was even with an actual sense of relief that some of our high commanders addressed themselves to our new and grimly simplified problem. As

I write now what 15 years past I would still not have thought possible to write: that if today I were given the choice to accept the experience, with everything that it entails, or to refuse the bitter largesse, I would have to stretch out my hands — because out of it has come, for all of us, an unimagined life. And I will not change the last word of the story. It is still love.

The doctor simply refused to take pity. And added: when you don't know what to eat make a nice Italian spaghetti.

Psychologically, accidia manifests as a loss of interiority, a refusal to see, and a resistance to change. The combination of loss of interiority and the resigned and abnegated character that goes along with it, results in a syndrome of a good-hearted, comfortable "earthiness" that may be exaggerated to the point of literalness and narrowness.

a political practice of methodical disengagement from and refusal of the Establishment, aiming at a radical transvaluation of values. Such a practice involves a break with the familiar, the routine ways of seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding things so that the organism may become receptive to the potential forms of a nonaggressive, nonexploitative world.

Whether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal—the protest against that which is.

The grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

I would prefer not to.

She was particularly interested in living authors, although she initially refused to meet them, knowing the distance between the work and the person could be covered only by disappointment.

He was the only human being who could appreciate and understand who She truly was. She refused to let go of such perfection.

There is no need for unanimity," Saint- Just said. "It would have been desirable, but let's get on. There are only two signatures wanting, I think, besides those who have refused. Citizen Lacoste, you next— then be so good as to put the paper in front of Citizen Robespierre, and move the ink a little nearer.

I am not drinking that," Jasper said. "I am a deWinter. We do not froth.

There it is. That temper you try to hide. You know what fascinates me about you? You're a hungry person sitting in front of a banquet, refusing to eat.

It hadn't made sense. He wouldn't accept it. He wouldn't go home.

Callum has turned down the