Assert Quotes

257 quotes by 221 authors

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin". — Robert Bellarmine
Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out. — Michael Josephson
Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional… — Stephen Jay Gould
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose… — Stephen Jay Gould
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they… — Karl Popper
I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way. — Sebastian Pinera
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive… — Emily Levine
The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures,… — Herta Muller
I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or… — Christopher Hitchens
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the… — bell hooks
The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process,… — Glenn Greenwald
It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse. — Michael Specter
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no… — Russell Smith
We know the Republicans are happy to keep the country in the dark, and if we Democrats are to recapture the power necessary to assert… — John Yarmuth
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his… — Leon Bourgeois
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so… — Damien Chazelle
We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. — John Howard
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part… — Thomas Erskine
I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in… — Jay Alan Sekulow

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