Assertion Quotes

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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H.G. Wells
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries… — Walter Wink
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty… — Abraham Lincoln
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that… — Thomas Huxley
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being — Frederick Hertz
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your… — John F. Kerry
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any… — bell hooks
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself… — Nathaniel Branden
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of… — Elliott Abrams
As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in… — Joseph Rotblat
In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here… — Rabindranath Tagore
Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion — John Kenneth Galbraith
This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man… — William Winters
Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level of scholasticism is… — Ilkin Santak

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