Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick DouglassTags: society justice ignorance class class-struggle class-warfare conspiracy denial inequity oppression society-denial
...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.Tags: denial television
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
VoltaireTags: fear truth reality denial truths truth-hurts truth-quotes
And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.
D.H. LawrenceTags: denial
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Jane AustenTags: love romance vanity denial affection blindness refusal folly
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
Oscar WildeTags: denial
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
Audre LordeTags: identity denial wholeness
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.
Judith Lewis HermanTags: lying denial secrecy crazy credibility survivors insane hysterical rape-survivor abusers perpetrators sexual-abuse survivor abuse abuse-survivors abuser attack-on-character attacking-people backlash break-the-silence child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-survivor false-memories false-memory-myth false-memory-syndrome-campaign healing-from-abuse incest just-tell lack-of-accountability perpetrator pschological-abuse rape-culture rape-myths sexual-assault sexual-violence unstable victimized victimizing
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
Douglas AdamsTags: past reality logic denial impossible contrary
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
Rabih AlameddineTags: life sanity denial existentialism chaos repression
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