Political Denial Quotes

#1. The truth has become an insult.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.

Ishmael Reed

#3. While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

Horace Greeley

#4. The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

Alexander Herzen

#5. I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense ...

Laetitia Pilkington

#7. It is the spectators who make the pictures.

Marcel Duchamp

#8. That deliverance is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself; those only are reliable, certain, and durable that depend upon yourself and your valor.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. No one ever gets over great pain, of any sort. It merely carves the soul into a stronger, better person.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. A 2013 study by Riley Dunlap and political scientist Peter Jacques found that a striking 72 percent of climate denial books, mostly published since the 1990s, were linked to right-wing think tanks, a figure that rises to 87 percent if self-published books (increasingly common) are excluded.23

Naomi Klein

#11. Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

George MacDonald Fraser

#12. Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.

Norman Vincent Peale

#13. Watch out fer these fellers around here. It ain't safe fer a pretty girl. Why, I had one just now tell me I looked like a breath of spring. Well, he didn't use them words, exactly. He said I looked like the end of a hard winter.

Minnie Pearl

#14. I'm like anybody else that's in media. I've got my opinions. I share them. I'm not afraid of them.

Rush Limbaugh

#15. America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

Richard Lamm

#16. Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Lord Acton

#17. I wanted to do something decent at last, and I wanted to be rewarded for my decency.
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Frank Huyler

#18. Any denial of the facts is a denial of the truth. Holocaust deniers cling to Any revisionism for political purposes.

A.E. Samaan

#19. If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

Evgeny Morozov

#20. We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Frank P. Ramsey

#21. But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

T. S. Eliot