Assertion Quotes
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.
There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.
I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.
I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.
I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise.
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.
What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.
Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.
Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.
In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.
To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.
Negative self assertions are like weeds in the garden of your life. Cleanse your garden of any such weeds.
Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!
