Denial Quotes - Page 3

God's delays are not God's denials.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

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 the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.