Denial Quotes - Page 2

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

Hope is the denial of reality.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we need, the more we are on our way to them; the more we need, the more we sink down to this perishable life.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.