Negation Quotes

88 Negation quotes by 83 unique authors

No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the… — Emma Goldman
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or… — Karl Marx
I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government… — Herbert Hoover
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your… — Alexander Haig
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. — Knut Hamsun
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick… — Ivan Illich
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object… — Simone Weil
Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and… — Matthew Scully
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience… — Derrick Jensen
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in… — Mikhail Bakunin
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life… — Charlotte Bronte
He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was… — Karl Marlantes
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings.… — William Blake
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. — Samuel Beckett
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of… — Pope John Paul II
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a… — Emile M. Cioran
Thought as suchâ€¦ is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its… — Theodor Adorno
My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade… — Maurice Blanchot

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