Top Refusing Quotes
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis
To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Joshua A. Norton
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Leigh Hunt
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
Ric Ocasek
Aneurin Bevan 
Caleb Cushing 
Leslie Charteris 
Robert Capa 
Pete Seeger 
Edith Evans 
Betty Friedan 
Jim Clyburn 
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Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
Leslie Charteris 
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
Betty Friedan
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
Rowan Williams
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How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
Nellie Bly
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
Edith Evans
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The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Kenneth L. Pike
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Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
Phil Crosby
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Jose Marti
51% of people like this quote
The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
Jim Clyburn
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For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
Robert Capa
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PlatoHenri Frederic AmielC. S. LewisJose MartiKenneth L. PikeRobert WalpoleRobert SmithCaleb CushingKit WilliamsAneurin BevanJim ClyburnPete SeegerNellie Bly
Phil CrosbyNorman LammLeigh HuntRowan WilliamsRobert CapaLeslie CharterisRic OcasekBetty FriedanSamuel DanielAnna Louise StrongJoshua A. NortonJohn BigelowEdith Evans
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