Quotes About Assertion

You may as well have written your name in the sky with your challenge, Gregori." "I want the vampire to be very clear about who I am, whom he has chosen for his enemy.

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

What can be asserted without proof can be dissmissed without proof.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. This is even more true when the "evidence" eventually offered is so shoddy and self-interested.

It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one.

The "evidence" for faith, then, seems to leave faith looking even weaker than it would if it stood, alone and unsupported, all by itself. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. This is even more true when the "evidence" eventually offered is so shoddy and self-interested.

Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor expressed by writer Christopher Hitchens. It says that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim; if this burden is not met, then the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it. Hitchens has phrased the razor in writing as What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

People assert themselves out of an unquenchable sense of dignity.

Sacro egoismo was the phrase; you made yourself holy by the force with which you asserted your own Godhead.

You can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no such thing as vampires any more than you can prove you're not a lesbian.

If I think it's true, no matter why or how I think it's true, then it's true, and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Der Deutsche fährt nicht wie andere Menschen. Er fährt, um recht zu haben.

But surely we are not allowed..." "Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.

It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true.' 'And it doesn't matter what you won't let me say, that'll still be true too.

Clary sat back. "You don't just get to say no." "This plan involves me! I get to say no! No." "Simon -" Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. "Let me introduce you to my good friend No.

Faltaba más -dijo-, yo no me debo explicaciones ni a mi mismo.

Strong is right?" "Well, yes, I suppose you could say that." "You say a woman cannot be bought. I say she can. I am strong. I am right.

I'm not your woman yet. Have you no shame? It's broad daylight. People might see." "They will see you are my woman." "They'll see my drawers, that's what they'll see!" He abandoned his hold on her skirt to run his palm up her back. "No bones. That is good." Loretta's face flamed when she realized he was referring to the whale bones of a corset. A decent man didn't mention such things.

I won't marry you!" she cried frantically. He threw her a look charged with martial arrogance. "You will be my wife, little one. My way or yours, in the end, it will be so.

Get over it,' Sherlock said, and looked at her husband. 'No, no, bad dog, keep quiet.

No matter what it was or is," I said, "you have the right to make a request. You don't have to endure, as you say, 'the shivers.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right. Anyway,

You ain't no woodstove; you can't just squat in the middle of my house and stew.

Right!" said Joe. "My middle name is Joseph, anyway.