Refusing Quotes
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
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That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.
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Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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There is a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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So refusing to say you won't do something is the moral equivalent of doing.
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A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?
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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
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Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.
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On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children: A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
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It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
