Denial Quotes
636 Denial quotes by 510 unique authors
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen…
— John Ralston Saul
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For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial…
— Kofi Annan
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It is deeply pejorative to call someone a 'climate change denier.' This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of 'Holocaust…
— Unknown Author
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The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their…
— Carol Moseley Braun
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It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it…
— Terry Rossio
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What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from…
— R. D. Laing
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The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled is by denial,…
— Edgar Mitchell
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Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence.
— Paul Copan
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Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.
— Michael Fassbender
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Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.
— Ralph Nader
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Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
— Aldous Huxley
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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
— Tab Hunter
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Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the…
— Avital Ronell
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That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If…
— Newt Gingrich
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The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
— John F. MacArthur
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The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
— Ken Liu
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An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology…
— Unknown Author
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Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
— Pete Townshend
Who Wrote These Denial Quotes
510 authors contributed a total of 636 Denial Quotes, led by these top contributors: