Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
“It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
One cannot always bestow all manner of things upon everybody. To refuse a request for just cause is as praiseworthy as to… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral. — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
“I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.” — Don Piper with Cecil Murphey Copy Share Image
For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. — Barrington Moore Jr Copy Share Image
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression… — Percy Cerutty Copy Share Image
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Denying God is merely denying yourself — a refusal to rise to the spiritual or supra-consciousness realm.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“My refusal to ever have conflict with others meant I was in conflict with myself.” — Holley Gerth Copy Share Image
