#refuse

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chatter #discipline #education #feed #first

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#any #blindly #brave #brave new world #canadians

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. ↗

— Diogenes

#anything #because #called #dog #fawn

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses. ↗

— Virgil

#consider #each #refuses #soil #will

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection. ↗

— Richard von Weizsaecker

#inhumanity #new #prone #refuses #remember

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#enter #ever #fool #only #paradise

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#been #despised #except #gift #outward

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#because #bitter #did #died #fact

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll. ↗

— Ben Harper

#i #refuse #rock #roll

I refuse to make uninspired music. ↗

— Ben Harper

#make #music #refuse #uninspired