Assertion Quotes

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I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority,… — Elena Kagan
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. — George Bernard Shaw
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. — Erich Maria Remarque
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There… — Stanley Elkin
To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle.… — Ralph P. Martin
He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the… — Alice Miller
It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its… — David Mamet
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. — James Anthony Froude
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. — Eric Hoffer
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what… — Walter Pater
It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion. — Jessye Norman
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over… — H.G. Wells
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone… — Johannes Rau
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people. — Don Tapscott
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the… — Gavin Bryars
We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education… — David Graeber
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no… — Laurence Steinberg

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