Repudiate Quotes

#1. I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.

James Henry Hammond

#2. Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

Wallace Stevens

#3. Thus the 'fortune-teller' is trying to foresee something that is really quite unforeseeable. This is characteristic of all forms of foreseeing. And precisely because what they 'see' is so vague, it is hard to repudiate fortune-tellers' claims.

Jostein Gaarder

#4. The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Benjamin Disraeli

#5. One thing is certain - that there was an active circulation of money. We must repudiate the idea that the people of the Merovingian epoch lived under a system of natural economy.

Henri Pirenne

#6. It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Gordon W. Allport

#7. Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

C.S. Lewis

#8. The American people are not remarkable for moderation. They despise halfness. They will go with him who goes farthest and stay with him who stays longest. What the country thinks of half-men and half-measures is seen by the last election. We repudiate all such men and all such measures.

Frederick Douglass

#9. If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.

Marc Racicot

#10. Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth.

Meir Soloveichik

#11. A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

Bell Hooks

#13. I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with that of finding a meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's palm

Jose Borges

#14. If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Eldridge Cleaver

#15. I don't belong in this world, I am merely a traveller passing through, I repudiate to silence my thought, because they fear my light.

Nikki Rowe

#16. There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. [I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.

John McCain

#18. Every passive resistant movement has at some point been forced either to deny itself or repudiate the state.

Clarence Marsh Case

#19. I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

Jorge Luis Borges

#20. I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

Henri Matisse

#21. My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Mark McMorris

#22. Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."

Nancy Mairs

#23. In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

Iain McGilchrist

#24. That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

Scott Ritter

#25. To ask to be forgiven is in part to acknowledge that the attitude displayed in our actions was such as might properly be resented and in part to repudiate that attitude for the future; and to forgive is to accept the repudiation and to forswear the resentment.

Peter Frederick Strawson

#26. There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#27. Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

John Cornwell

#28. A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.

John William Draper

#29. It is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life.

Victor L. Brown

#30. The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin ... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#31. Oblonsy was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going to be proud of your ancestry, why stop short at Prince Rurik and repudiate your oldest ancestor - the ape?

Leo Tolstoy

#32. To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to pay rents, taxes, bills, etc., on the calends, and to defer paying them to the "Greek Calends" was virtually to repudiate them. (See NEVER.)

E. Cobham Brewer

#33. No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.

Norman Finkelstein

#34. To repudiate the election of God is to repudiate the God of election.

Arthur W. Pink

#35. Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Charles Albert Gobat

#36. It is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

Edna O'Brien

#37. I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

Ian Paisley

#38. I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan - no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.

Kathryn Lasky

#39. The Savior taught us to love not only our friends but also those who disagree with us- and even those who repudiate us.

Neil L. Andersen

#40. Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Giuseppe Verdi

#41. The holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#42. We were tolerated. and that is unforgivable. If you cannot accept a man wholeheartedly, then you should have the fortitude to repudiate him.
Kwame in The two hearts of Kwasi Boachi

Arthur Japin

#43. One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times ... He is beyond human forgiveness.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#44. The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

Bell Hooks

#45. When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.

Michael Bassey Johnson