Refusal Quotes
245 quotes by 220 authors
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
— Chinua Achebe
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
— Annie Besant
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
— Albert Camus
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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
— Lois Capps
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Elegance is refusal.
— Coco Chanel
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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you…
— Midge Decter
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Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our…
— George C. Marshall
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She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our…
— Trey Gowdy
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On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year…
— Peter Karmanos, Jr.
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I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from…
— Charles R. Drew
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So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding…
— Herbert Spencer
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There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
— Paul Rudnick
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine…
— Mamphela Ramphele
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The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.
— Percy Cerutty
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Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of…
— Karl Popper
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Faith is the refusal to panic.
— David Lloyd-Jones
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For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
— Barrington Moore, Jr.
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It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us…
— Susan Sontag
Who Wrote These Refusal Quotes
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