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Denies Quotes

Refusal, denial, and pushing past limits

These denies quotes range from philosophical reflections on denying reality to a hard-won story of surviving military training that denies sleep for weeks. See Believe quotes for more on conviction.

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

Quotes by Walter Rauschenbusch

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm the guy that once graduated Ranger School - a place that starves you and denies you sleep for over two months - and took a fight six days later in the IFL and won.

Quotes by Tim Kennedy

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

Quotes by Theodor Herzl

Always Quotes

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Quotes by Talcott Parsons

Real or not, when a person denies God, they often try and fill that higher power void with something else.

Quotes by Steven Crowder

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Quotes by Simone Weil

Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply...

Quotes by Sharan Burrow

If the Italian is the most passionate lover in the world, it may be because he is the most restrained. Rigid convention denies him all contact with the lovelier girls, who never are free from chaperons.

Quotes by Rudolph Valentino

Being Quotes

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

No country can succeed if it denies itself the talents of half of its people.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

Quotes by Richard Holbrooke

Nigeria has its problems, nobody denies that, but there is a surge of spiritual - I would say, Christian - dynamics that are awesome.

Quotes by Reinhard Bonnke

Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

Quotes by Queen Rania of Jordan

Believe Quotes

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

Quotes by Paul Theroux

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Quotes by Paul de Man

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Quotes by Paul de Man

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Quotes by Orson Welles

The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

Quotes by Moshe Katsav

I Am Quotes

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Quotes by Michael Newdow

Frequently Asked Questions

What do denies quotes explore?
They explore refusing to accept limits on faith's power, denying the grip of harsh reality, and enduring training that denies rest and comfort.
Is there a philosophical quote about denial?
Yes, one reflects that denying what truly is leaves a person possessed instead by fear, fantasy, and compulsion.
Do any quotes mention military training?
Yes, one recalls graduating a grueling Ranger School that starves and exhausts recruits across roughly nine weeks, then winning a fight just days later.
Is there a quote about faith and social change?
Yes, one warns against denying the power of religious life to help reshape how people relate and organize together.
Do denies quotes focus on endurance?
Yes, several center on pushing through situations that deny comfort, sleep, or certainty. See Believe quotes for more on resilience.

One line also warns against denying how deeply religious life can rebuild social bonds and institutions, a theme worth pairing with Being quotes. See Always quotes too.