#assert

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#brutality #bureaucratic #city #coherent #come

A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#presumption #r-alan-woods #refuting #r-alan-woods

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#answer #asserting #attack #character #conformity

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth. ↗

— Kirk Cameron

#atheist #behind #being #could #done

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. ↗

— John Francis Davis

#believe #better #does #good #good qualities

I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#always #assertive #attracted #been #confidence

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#assert #big #big deal #cloth #coverage

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#common #common good #good #individual #individual liberty

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#between #catalysis #chemical #chemical reactions #concept