Denial Quotes
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Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.
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“Yet when the denial becomes so complete that we live under what amounts to a tyranny of not seeing and not speaking the existential truth, it becomes dangerous itself. This is what makes the closest and deepest experiences of catastrophe, loss, and failure so”
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Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.
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Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.
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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
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The only atheism is the denial of truth.
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
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But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
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More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
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After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.
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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.
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Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.
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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.
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It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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Steady denial of feelings can confuse and enrage kis. Also teaches them not to know what their feelings are - not to trust them.
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It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
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Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
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To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.
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Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.
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The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.
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You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.
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Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
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Denial is an ugly thing.
