Refusal Quotes

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Rumi
Depression Insolence Praise Refusal Your Connected
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. Reinhold Niebuhr
War Result Tyranny Consequences Worse Civilization Imperfect However Historic Than May Situations Refusal Which Against Aggression Inheritance Even Even Worse Defend
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. Thomas S. Monson
Self-Respect Respect Integrity Say Would Individual Perhaps Surest Test His Refusal Anything Damage
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle. Sam Harris
World Matter Live Philosophy Atheism Simply Obvious Principle Overlooked Deny Refusal Unfortunately Which View Even
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. Raoul Vaneigem
Positive Life Love Class Struggle People Everyday Life Understanding Revolution Mouth Everyday Corpse Class Struggle About Constraints Talk Without Referring Refusal Subversive Explicitly Who
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
Evil Despairing Boredom Oneself Refusal Root
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. Bayard Rustin
Dignity Human Being Society Individual Him Protest Protesting His Very Human Refusal Being Acknowledge Act
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Fran Lebowitz
Life You Real Life Algebra Assure Remain Firm Real Refusal Stand Your Conscious Thing
Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope. James Howard Kunstler
Hope Technology Reality National Lust Our Everything Pleasure Abandon Distraction More Toward Days Comfort Narcissistic Souls Limitless Cults Mandates Refusal Where Fidelity Us Realm Engage Ever Growth
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. John Reed
Government Time People Every Relations Weak Excites Masses Contempt Authorities Refusal Act Rebellious
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. Samuel Richardson
Hope Lover Seldom Exclude Refusal Explicit Widow
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start. Shirley Chisholm
Time Woman Seriously Will Black Hopeless Country Odds Group Believe Presidency Despite Ran Status Status Quo Runs Highest He Taken He Or She She Accept Sheer Ready Demonstrate Office Refusal Anyone Quo Elect Next Next Time Start Jew
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. Alexander Chase
Rude Immediately Taken Always Refusal Believed Soft
Contrary to popular belief, Henry VIII did not divorce any of his wives. He had sought an annulment from Catherine of Aragon - which he finally awarded to himself after the pope's continued refusal. When it came to Anne's turn, Henry took the easy route by having her found guilty of treason. Amanda Foreman
Took Finally Guilty Easy Having Had He Divorce Anne Catherine Himself Sought Wives Came Continue His Contrary Did Any Refusal After Which Turn Pope Popular Belief Awarded Found Henry Route Her Treason
When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language. Anthony Marra
Family Language Car Statement Hiding Miraculously Indifference Collision Impending Empathy Read Came Line Behind Refusal Crash Story While Spared Warn Act Help Last
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. Bob Woodward
Truth Failure Lying Final Took Months System Nixon Clean Come Attributable Known Deal Quickly Refusal
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. Boris Pasternak
Me Honor Will Community Meet Has-Been Given Abstain Voluntary Been Undeserved Prize Refusal Which Meaning Should View Ill Awarded Belong
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. Carrie Snow
Hope Science Believe Refusal Basis
Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states. Charles B. Rangel
People President States Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Thousands Thousands Of People More Could Calls Because Repairing Been Governors Die May Refusal Aftermath Heed Infrastructure Help Katrina Many
The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose. Daisaku Ikeda
People Matter Country Fall Victim Awareness Living Weapons Threat Shadow Individual Crucial Never Arouse Permit Continue Any Human Refusal Each Express Each Individual Conscience Nuclear Thing Nuclear Weapons Pose
The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences. Deborah Tannen
Political Party Tea Consequences Conservatives Strongly Compromise Vehement Particularly Practical Call Refusal Movement Regardless Swayed Tea Party Tea Party Movement Now Whose Right
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. Diana Vreeland
Nothing Dressed Well Refusal Being Elegance Innate
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left. Donella Meadows
Wisdom Freedom Honesty Ending Listening Poverty Ideology Humility About Potential Both Cruel Freedom From Accept Calls Nonsense Left Human Refusal Anyone Cutting Requires Right
There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. Frederick M. Vinson
State Prohibit Constitutional Restrictions Vast Students Individuals Imposed Intellectual Refusal Difference Where Which Bar Presents
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 like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal. Glenn Greenwald
Gay People Equality Become Increasingly State Virtue Punishing Recognized Merits Like Forced Accept Because Been Officials Refusal Them Persuaded Acting
Delegations from all over the world visit Homeboy Industries and scratch their heads as we tell them of our difficulty in placing our people in jobs after their time with us. Americans' seeming refusal to believe in a person's ability to redeem himself strikes these folks as foreign indeed. Greg Boyle
Time People World Believe Difficulty Our Strikes Indeed Our People Visit Tell Jobs Folks Ability Seeming Over Heads Redeem Industries Himself Foreign Person American Scratch Refusal After Placing Them Us
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