#denial

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. ↗

— Charles Bradlaugh

#better #denial #free #free speech #speech

If I don't read page ninety, it won't have happened to them. Black Beauty will still live with all his friends at Birtwick Park … The knights will be able to go on having jolly adventures without Lancelot meeting Guinevere and bringing the whole Round Table crashing down into ruin on their heads… ↗

— Barbara Hambly

#beauty

What state do you live in? Denial. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#humor #humor

My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the future, because they know they have done nothing but evil in the past. But Artists, who have been right from the beginning of the world, who were, perhaps, the only people who were right even in the beginning of the world, decorating pottery or designing rude frescoes on the rock when other people were fighting or offering human sacrifice, they have no right to despise their own past. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#avowals-and-denials #politics #progress #design

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#hubris #innocense #dreams

...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#television #dreams

You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#faith #self-denial #surrender #trust #faith

Maggie scoffed. "Denial will not save you when Cupid's arrow find its mark." "If i see Cupid anywhere in the vicinity, I'm ripping his chubby little arms off." Vanda yanked the door open to Romatech. ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#cupid #denial #love

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#bigot #bigotry #bigots #delusion #denial

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear