Quotes of: Denial Keyword

football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vince Lombardi

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

The Denial of Death

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

The Denial of Death

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Theodore Parker

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

Emily Mortimer

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social an...

Henry Giroux

God's delays are not God's denials.

Robert H. Schuller

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Another of the difficulties of having DID is the denial. DID is a disorder of denial. It has to be because if the original person knew about the alters and felt their pain, they would either go crazy and be hospitalized permanently, or would die.

A Shattered Soul

Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and thereby makes everyone nice. By denying sin, the nice people make a cure impossible. Sin is most serious, and the tragedy is deepened by the denial that w...

Fulton J. Sheen

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.

The Denial of Death

...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.

The Denial of Death

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.

The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hop...

Charles Bradlaugh

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.

Angelina Grimke

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

The Denial of Death

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

The Denial of Death

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature