Refusal Quotes

245 quotes by 216 authors

I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when… — Jennifer Donnelly
...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear — Lauren Oliver
A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me." "I would hope so. — Amanda Hocking
Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught… — Gary L. Francione
Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you… — Melina Marchetta
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. — Thomas Keneally
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. — Karl Popper
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time… — Fulton J. Sheen
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Jean-Paul Sartre
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. — David Mitchell
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and… — David Nicholls
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response… — Dean Koontz
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — Nathaniel Branden
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most… — Howard Zinn
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's… — Confucius
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory… — Evgeny Morozov
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward… — Tullian Tchividjian
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting… — Glenn Greenwald

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