Refuse Quotes
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How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
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Knowing full well that I looked like something any self-respecting cat would refuse to drag in.
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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors.
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I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
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I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.
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Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.
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Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry.
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
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I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
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I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.
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The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
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Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
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But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
