Denial Quotes - Page 11

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

The only aberration is denial of self.

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

There has to be some self-denial.

To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

When I found out I was having twins, I was even in denial that I was pregnant. When I found out I was having twins I just laughed. "Of course this would happen!" I started giggling.

I don't believe that climate-change fiction will change the mind of a denier because most of the deniers I've met are basically in a cult situation. It's a faith issue. It's not a rational issue. There's no fact that's going to change their mind. They simply believe in the cult of climate-change denial and it somehow feeds into the rest of the mythos of their own life story.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI...(NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation...This kind of fraud which I expressed...and which was openly published...has...not resulted in any denial.

After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.