Refuse quotes
167 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true."
"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."
"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right."
"Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are."
"Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness."
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"He who refuses to learn deserves extinction."
"Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written."
"Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it."
"I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven."
"Refuse to let an old person move into your body."
"I refuse to act the way someone expects me to."
"Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors"
"Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words."
"A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually."
"I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!"
"I absolutely refuse to bare midriff."
"Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her."
"I refuse to make uninspired music."
"Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything."
"I refuse putting from me the best that I am."
"I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be."
"He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it."
"I refuse to live a conventional life."
"We refuse to believe that which we don't understand."
"to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized."
