Denial Quotes

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

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

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

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.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

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.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

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?

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

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