#refusal

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#aggression #civilization #consequences #defend #even

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#else #everyone #losers #play #rebels

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#explicit #hope #lover #refusal #seldom

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#believe #hope #refusal #science

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ↗

— Annie Besant

#believe #denial #experience #given #limited

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett) ↗

— Jane Austen

#behaviour #declaration #empowerment #gentlemanlike #gentlemen

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #challenges #confidence #conflict-resolution #courage

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#man #refusal #signify #words #world

Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist auf Dauer kein Lebensinhalt. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#meaning-of-life #negativity #refusal #resistance #life

I asked her if she’d give me all her love, and she flatly said no. I got excited because while she said she wouldn’t give me all her love, she said nothing about not wanting to give me some of her love. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #refusal #rejection #love