Denial Quotes

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. (Germaine Greer)
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
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. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. View quote
Bill Watterson
Delay is the deadliest form of denial. View quote
C. Northcote Parkinson
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer - at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of death. View quote
Jacques Lipchitz
Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin. View quote
Margaret Weis
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. View quote
Michael Pollan
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness calling their denial knowled. View quote
George Eliot
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. View quote
Cicero
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. (Donald Judd)
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. View quote
Annie Besant
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. View quote
Frank Herbert
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us. View quote
Eve Ensler
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. View quote
Christopher Lasch
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. View quote
Atom Egoyan
I believe we're all in denial about the people we love. View quote
David Geffen
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition. View quote
Caleb Cushing
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. View quote
Lindsey Buckingham
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice. (Charles Krauthammer)
To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity. View quote
Clarence Thomas
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree. View quote
Clement Attlee
I think the US is in a terrible state of denial ... Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Götterdämmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial? View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say