Insistence Quotes

99 quotes by 92 authors

The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing… — Al Gore
...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single… — Howard Zinn
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the… — Stephen Fry
The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains… — Larry Levis
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness… — Sigmund Freud
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are… — Frederic Bastiat
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life,… — Todd Gitlin
Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual… — John Stoltenberg
Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC… — Don Aitkin
Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged. — Unknown Author
If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past… — Rajneesh
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From… — Roger Rosenblatt
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of… — Robert C. Solomon
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless… — Emma Goldman
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for… — Jack Kornfield
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her… — Germaine Greer
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. — David Graeber
Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I… — Helen Schucman
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in… — Benjamin De Casseres
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern… — Karl Hess

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