Refusal Quotes - Page 13

• El hombre moderno vive aislado en su entorno artificial, no porque lo artificial sea malo en sí, sino por su falta de comprensión de las fuerzas que lo hacen funcionar, de los principios que relacionan sus artilugios con las fuerzas de la naturaleza, con el orden universal. No es la calefacción central lo que hace que su existencia sea "antinatural", sino su negativa a interesarse por los principios que la sustentan. Al depender por completo de la ciencia y cerrar su mente a ella, lleva la vida de un bárbaro urbano.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Order, Evil

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Kindness, People, Complaining

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• Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.

  San Francisco de Sales

  Children, Humility, Journey

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Running, Determination, Teaching

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.34, Random House

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• My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

  Noam Chomsky

  Agency, Feelings, Essentials

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• Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

  David Limbaugh

  President, Campaigns, Reason

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• Cuando la Caridad está profundamente arraigada en el alma, se manifiesta exteriormente: hay un modo tan gracioso de rechazar lo que no podemos dar, que el rechazo agrada tanto como el don.

  Teresa de Lisieux

  Dar, Alma, Caridad

  Santa Teresa de Lisieux (1915). "Pensamientos de Santa Teresa", p.20, TAN Books

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• He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

  Séneca el Joven

  Invites, Asks, Timidity

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• Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

  Timothy Keller

  Identity, Sin, Our Relationship

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.163, Penguin

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• Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

  Albert Camus

  Simple, Men, Historical

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.250, Vintage

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• Si intentamos conseguir la casa perfecta, la relación perfecta o el trabajo perfecto, es probable que haya algún tipo de miedo que nos impulse más allá del deseo natural de mejorar. En realidad, es la negativa a reconocer que la vida -incluidos nosotros mismos- simplemente no es perfecta.

  Roger Housden

  Trabajo, Perfecto, Casa

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Who timidly requests invites refusal.

  Séneca el Joven

  Request, Invites, Timidity

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• Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?

  Alfred Kazin

  Literature, Pseudo, Spirit

  Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.

  Manning Marable

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

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• What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

  Eve Arnold

  People, Height, Able

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• Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal opens the way for a more radical form of self-determination, one that happens in solidarity with others who are undergoing a similar struggle.

  Judith Butler

  Determination, Struggle, Self

  Fuente: transadvocate.com

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• He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.

  Dante Alighieri

  Needs, Spirit, Refuse

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• Los seres humanos pueden redimirse. Los imperios no. Nuestra negativa a afrontar la verdad sobre el imperio, nuestra negativa a desafiar los multitudinarios crímenes y atrocidades del imperio, ha provocado la pesadilla que Malcolm predijo. Y a medida que la Era Digital y nuestra sociedad postalfabetizada implantan una aterradora amnesia histórica, estos crímenes se borran tan rápidamente como se cometen.

  Chris Hedges

  Historical, Age, Atrocities

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• Una negativa decidida y sensata a participar en festividades será un incentivo para la introspección y la autodepuración.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Self, Incentives

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). "La unidad comunal"

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• Rechazar la esperanza no es más que una decisión de morir.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hope, Decision, Dies

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• One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful.

  John Hope Franklin

  Past, People, Important

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• When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future.

  Louise Hay

  Letting Go, Hurt, Revenge

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• The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dog, Fighting, Gun

  Interview with Arthur Kretchmer, www.playboy.com. October 14, 2011.

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• La desobediencia civil total es un estado de rebelión pacífica, una negativa a obedecer todas y cada una de las leyes promulgadas por el Estado.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Peaceful, Rebellion

  Mahatma Gandhi Dennis Dalton (1996). "Gandhi: Selected Political Writings", p.74, Hackett Publishing

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• Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Determination, Flower, Land

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.119, South End Press

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