Denial Quotes - Page 12

• The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

  Sidney Hook

  Interesting, Truth Is, Refusal

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• Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Ignorance, Two

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• Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it.

  Warren Farrell

  Husband, Men, Addiction

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Careers, Political

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• Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

  Carl Bernstein

  Reality, Media, Gossip

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• I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

  Betty Ford

  Never Forget, Reactions, Mastectomy

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• Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

  Herbert Read

  Nature, Science, People

  Herbert Read (1955). “The Grass Roots of Art: Lectures on the Social Aspects of Art in an Industrial Age”

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• We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

  Eric Cantor

  Believe, People, Choices

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• We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Country, Children, Believe

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• But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.

  Cathy Lamb

  Pain, Grief, Loss

  Cathy Lamb (2011). “The First Day of the Rest of My Life”, p.355, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

  Tupac Shakur

  Death, Fire, Baptized In

  Song: So Many Tears

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• The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.

  Criss Jami

  Atheist, Father, Teenager

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.78, Criss Jami

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• Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Culture, Labels

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• If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Identity, Your Smile, Burqa

  "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.

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• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, America, Stupidity

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• This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

  Alexander Herzen

  Struggle, Play, Roles

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• Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

  Everett Dirksen

  Opportunity, Men, Color

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• The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Meaningful, Past, Reality

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• It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

  Donald Byrd

  Artist, Color, Black

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• When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required.

  Paul Gilding

  Thinking, Waiting, World

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• Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull . Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).

  Hans Hofmann

  Dark, Color, Light

  Lowery Stokes Sims, Hans Hofmann, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1999). “Hans Hofmann in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.

  John Ashcroft

  Reality, Faces, Elements

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
  purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Opposites, Justice

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• With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

  Julianne Moore

  Lying, Makeup, Age

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• REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Desire, Lasts, Feminine

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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