Quotes of: Refusal Keyword

I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.

Life

WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!

Widad Akrawi

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that bec...

Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say

The necessity of reform mustn’t be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise of criticism. Under no circumstances should one pay attention to those who tell one: “Don’t criticize, since you’re not ca...

The Essential Foucault: Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984

He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For th...

Ghana Must Go

As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generatio...

James Truslow Adams

She that in life and love refuses me, In death and shame my partner she shall be.

The Changeling

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

The Charioteer

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

The Curfew

We refuse to acknowledge something that is blatantly obvious because either we are closed or we don't know how to face it.

Dissolve the Box

Freedom is for the curious ones. Free is the one not influenced by taboos. Free is the one who reasons and evolves continuously, and refuses to accept anything without thinking.

Daimones

Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred; agree to be bright!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.

The Dancing Sun

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

Double Star

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

The First and Last Freedom

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

A Familiar Rain

I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!' 'And I’ve tried living without you, and it just won’t do!

Burdened By Desire

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly