Deny Quotes

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Freedom, Others, Themselves

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life, Happiness, Morning

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand

Cannot, Earth, Rights

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Truth, Him

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Him, Liberty

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand

Alone, Cannot, Reason

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph Campbell

Human, Humanity, Able

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela

Human, Humanity, Challenge

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, After

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston

Angry, Sometimes, Against

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron

Nothing, Everything, Doubt

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

Poetry, Words, Few

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
Coretta Scott King

Humanity, Racism, Group

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Alice Duer Miller

Anger, Genuine, Faces

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken

Men, Between, Difference

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
John Wooden

War, Rights, Vietnam

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison

Faith, Great, Atheist

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Marquis de Sade

Faith, Good, Dead

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Coretta Scott King

Freedom, Justice, Political

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Benjamin Disraeli

Forget, Sometimes, Contradict

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King

Laughter, Long, Down

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague

Freedom, Mind, Human

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
Frank Miller

Time, Best, Hero

We kind of deny the stages of life.
Chuck Palahniuk

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Yourself, Commitment

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Faith, Religion, Freedom

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul Sartre

God, Forget, Cannot

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana

Ignore, Living, Wrong

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler

God, Him, Impossible

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
John Stuart Mill

Wrong, Both, Sides

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