Negative Words quotes
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt."
"Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard."
"I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?"
"Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life."
"The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa."
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"The more you look into pigs the more you realize quite how everywhere they are. People come in contact with parts of pigs probably between 20 and 50 times a day. And that's before you even eat your dinner. And yet we just have a long string of negative words about them."