Quotes About Assertion

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate "relationship" involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended. Marriage, in other words, has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided.

I give you better than proof, gentlemen; I give you my positive opinion.

Cortana's eyes glowed as she bent forward. "Piss off.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.

She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

I'm quite capable of walking," she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short." They are not!

Mama says, " Helen Michelle, a lot of women have trouble saying no and then find themselves in worse situations because they were afraid of being rude. So, if you have trouble saying no, say 'No, thank you.' Let's practice.

Claiming our voice, and our selfhood, is a sacred act.

Several prominent thinkers have proposed reclassifying Druhástrana as a purely notional/mythical land since a) nobody seems to actually come from there or know how to get there and b) literal interpretations of the assertion that Druhástrana exists may be a profound mistranslation of Czech humor.

I am woman, hear me roar.

No," she said again, just because it felt good to say no to this person

No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.

"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

He seemed the incarnate "Well, I told you so!"

The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another

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.

the assertion that you live in a lie while I live in the truth is the most cruel thing one person can say to another...

You mean to make me beg for it?" "Not at all, my lord. I mean to keep it

The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.

You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.

Each one of us, as long as life stirs in him, may play a part in extricating himself from the power system by asserting his primacy as a person in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate him from the domination of the pentagon of power.