Deny Quotes - Page 28

• Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.

  Alexander Lowen

  Love Is, Persons

  Alexander Lowen (2012). “Narcissism: Denial of the True Self”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  God, Men

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.130

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• Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

  Hannah Arendt

  Rooms, Made, Found

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking. v. 2. Willing”, Harcourt

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• Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Opportunity, Government, Law

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016). “My Own Words”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

  "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette 319 U.S. 641". Judicial opinion, 1943.

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• It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Night, Profound, Imagination

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.145, Lulu.com

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• Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

  Charles Lamb

  Pockets, Painful, Beggar

  Charles Lamb (1903). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Miscellaneous Prose”, p.500, Library of Alexandria

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• With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.

  Jackson Pollock

  Drawing, Different, Use

  Interview by William Wright; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics", ed. Clifford Ross, 1990, p. 144, Summer 1950.

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• I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Painting, Surface, Flats

  Julia Brown, Helen Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1998). “After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

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• However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.

  Mike Huckabee

  Stupid, Doe, May

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• I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.

  Robert E. Howard

  Blind, Palate, Known

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “Fantastical Tales - The Ultimate Collection of Sword & Sorcery Action-Adventures, Time Travel & Mythical Worlds: Conan the Barbarian Series, The ‘Kull the Conqueror” Stories, The ‘Solomon Kane’ Saga, The ‘Bran Mak Morn’ Stories, The ‘Turlogh Dubh O'Brien’ Stories & The ‘James Allison’ Stories”, p.194, e-artnow

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• There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.

  John Rawls

  Religious, Ideas, Two

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• Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

  John Searle

  Study, Problem, Materialism

  "Consciousness and Language". Book by John Searle, 2002.

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• There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

  Jose Saramago

  Humanity, Want, World

  "'La muerte es la inventora de Dios'". Interview with Francesc Relea, elpais.com. October 17, 2009.

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• Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Believe, Men, Stupidity

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• Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Progress, Lasts

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• It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Common Sense, Principles, Strange

  "The order of Nature". Book by awrence Joseph Henderson, Ch. 5, 1917.

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• We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Challenges, Today, Said

  "A hundred years of thinking about God: A philosopher soon to be rediscovered". U.S. News & World Report, February 23, 1998.

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• The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Book, Writing, Men

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• To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

  Sidney Hook

  Believe, Atheism, Positive Atheism

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• We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Christian, Brother, Hero

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1972). “What on Earth Is an Atheist!”, Arno Press

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• I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.

  Ted Nugent

  Warrior, People, Evil

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• Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Country, Wine, Men

  Oliver Cromwell (1820). “Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell: And of His Sons, Richard and Henry”, p.561

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• Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

  Dennis Prager

  Holocaust, Want, Repeats

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• Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Soul, Dying

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.40, Fig

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