In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a…

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best…

— Dean Koontz

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

— Steven Weinberg

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch…

— Nathaniel Branden

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

— Peter Greenaway

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities…

— Chris Hedges

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the…

— Donella Meadows

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.…

— Eckhart Tolle

“To heal the pain of another is to heal my own pain. Yet, some of the greatest pain that I can experience is found…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual…

— Barbra Streisand

At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues…

— Henry Giroux

The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they…

— Cornel West

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal…

— Anonymous

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

— Edmond Rostand

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

— Joseph Hume