Denial Quotes

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

Debate is so much better than denial.

It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

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

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence.

Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.

She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!

American society has gone completely into denial.

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

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

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

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

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Security is the denial of life

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ

Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

I'm not pushing myself forward in denial of the moment. I'm pushing myself forward and enjoying every moment voraciously. I'm thinking about the next thing but not at the expense of the present.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

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

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.