Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
Life is already together, and what you have to experience is experiencing it being together. The striving to put it together is a denial of the truth that it is actually already together and further striving keeps you from getting it together.
You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us
That which is denied cannot be healed.
To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't
It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
Bob Torricelli, Democrat member of the Senate, was basically about to be thrown out of office on corruption charges, and he went to the floor of the Senate to deny everything. And we juxtaposed his denials with an attorney from someone in an action against Torricelli who was listing all of the gifts and all the bribes that Torricelli had been given and offered in exchange for policy considerations on the Senate floor. So he's on the Senate floor denying it.
To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation.
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.
The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.