To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.
I want to be different. Just like all the other different people I want to be like. I want to be just like all the different people and assert my individuality along with others who are different like me.
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.
Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Coming from a technology background, I mostly worked behind the scenes or let the men take the lead. I had to learn to assert myself, communicate and be heard. I made sure that once I had my voice, I spoke for those who didn't - especially women.
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation.
While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.
To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.
There should be just no end to what we can do when we operate with the courage of our convictions and we get out there in the street, in the voting booth, we assert our power and we take our democracy back.
It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.
Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.
You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.