Denial Quotes - Page 24

• Everybody was telling [the Democrats], the media, everybody telling them they're gonna win in a landslide, [Donald] Trump's a buffoon, look at his campaign staff, a bunch of nobody's and know-nothings. Looks at his supporters, a bunch of white supremacist goombahs. They're in utter denial.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Media, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trump, Stills, Mandates

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared ] that Donald Trump and his campaign, or his future administration, is just in denial. They just want to say, no, no, no, [Vladimir] Putin couldn't possibly have done this.

  E. J. Dionne

  Thinking, Administration, Campaigns

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• American society has gone completely into denial.

  Jerry Garcia

  Gone, American Society

  Source: medium.com

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• Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."

  Howard Rheingold

  Real, Technology, People

  Source: medium.com

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• What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Imagination, Focus

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Important, Principles

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting rights has had on our African-American brothers and sisters. I have witnessed it.

  Jeff Sessions

  Brother, Impact, Rights

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, Self, Democracy

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• Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Self, Mad

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.103, GENERAL PRESS

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• Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

  Emily Mortimer

  Exercise, People, Pills

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• This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Names, Silence

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

  Albert Camus

  Truth, Mind, May

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Tough Times, Delay

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Practice

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.557, Routledge

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• I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Numbers

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• Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, is more denials. They are now denying their own study.

  Steve Fainaru

  New York, Nfl, League

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• So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

  Bob Inglis

  Way, Climate, Existentialism

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• What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added anus of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do.

  Jim Goad

  Imagination, Playing It Safe, Fleeting

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• Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

  Arthur Bryant

  Evil, Soul, Slavery

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• God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man a will to freely choose to love or to hate Him, to receive Christ as Savior and Lord or to reject Him.

  Dave Hunt

  Hate, Men, Leader

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• We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the coners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. So they ride teh Ferris wheel, and at the top, they think they've left it all behind They've ascended to a place where they can take things seriously. Where they can be taken seriously.

  N.D. Wilson

  Laughter, Taken, Sadness

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• The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Thinking, Nihilism

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• All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Goal, Becoming

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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