Denial Quotes - Page 32

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

Abraham Lincoln

Men, Rights, Giving

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The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Believe, World, Lawyer

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Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

Nora Ephron

Mean, People, Way

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The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

D. A. Carson

Heart, Rights, Self

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The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Grief, Acceptance, Feelings

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What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

Ed Balls

Worry, Today, Figures

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Denial is a powerful weapon. My dad taught me mind over matter. No matter how hurt I got, he didn't mind.

Christopher Titus

Hurt, Powerful, Dad

"Titus / The Test (". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

Dov Davidoff

Society, Together, Woven

FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 13, 2012

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Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

Chuck Palahniuk

Running, Self, Smoking

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Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.

Ishmael Reed

Morning, Views, Media

Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.

Carl L. Becker

Education, Hurt, Government

Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

Eve Ensler

Thinking, Opposites, Rivers

Source: www.pbs.org

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Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.

Ralph Nader

Real, Vocabulary, Games

"A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

Susan L. Taylor

Silence, Anxiety, Feelings

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Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

Murray Gell-Mann

Order, Superstitions, Faces

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The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.

Edward S. Herman

Country, Rights, Practice

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There has to be some self-denial.

Joe Paterno

Self, Self-denial

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While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

Horace Greeley

Men, Rights, White Man

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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Fulton J. Sheen

Differences, Evil, Ends

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If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.

Simon Critchley

Mean, Pride, Acceptance

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To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

Bell Hooks

Psychics, Maintenance, Violence

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When I found out I was having twins, I was even in denial that I was pregnant. When I found out I was having twins I just laughed. "Of course this would happen!" I started giggling.

Jennifer Lopez

Mean, Twins, Kind

"Jennifer Lopez dishes parenthood". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. April 23, 2010.

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In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

Dallas Willard

Essentials, World, Faces

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But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

Naomi Klein

Needs, Clear, Collectives

Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.

Al Gore

Winning, Differences, Climate

"Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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