Refuse Quotes
1583 quotes by 1196 authors
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The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons,…
— Arundhati Roy
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
— William James
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow…
— Mary Kay Ash
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The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our…
— Warren W. Wiersbe
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It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because
— George MacDonald
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Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine…
— Andrea Dworkin
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What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his…
— Seneca the Younger
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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering…
— Vera Brittain
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
— Albert Einstein
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all…
— Ida Tarbell
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Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
— Oliver Heaviside
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It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically…
— Thomas Huxley
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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
— William Butler Yeats
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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,…
— Mark Twain
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Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they…
— Michael Shurtleff
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