#assert

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#asserted #authority #children #during #endeavoured

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not. ↗

— Louise J. Kaplan

#adolescent #assert #find #must #order

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#assertions #based #capital #capital punishment #form

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?' ↗

— John Tuley

#asserting #belief #demand #description #direction

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dismissed #evidence #without

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#admitted #assertiveness #before #begin #betty

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#assertive #began #both #british #canada

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#assert #differences #different #fundamental #fundamental rights

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#bare #naked #necessarily #truth

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. ↗

— Jonathan Raban

#asserted #being #denied #emphatic #may