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 principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death.… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. — Alexander Chase 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
There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity. — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough… — Anne Rice 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
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal.… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over… — Brennan Manning 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
The policies that Hillary [Clinton] advocates are going to be more of the same, whether you're looking at her cozy relationships with… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
![“The policies that Hillary [Clinton] advocates are going to be…” quote by Jill Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b70/jill-stein-660_bigs_the-policies-that-hillary-clinton-advoca_1790232.jpg)
