Denial Quote by Mark Ravenhill Download Open image “We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.” — Mark Ravenhill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Denial Evil Want
We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it. — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009)… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but quite a… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A mistake doesnt make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial. — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're telling me… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
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