I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life.… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“No one can claim to have produced any work without [the Muses'] help: the very fact that it exists proves they smiled… — Natalie Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
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Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope,… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that… — George Will Copy Share Image
The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal…… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30… — Peter Karmanos, Jr Copy Share Image
Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work.… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
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