quotes about Negation

last updated: November 28, 2023

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.
-- Ludwig von Mises

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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
-- Margaret Thatcher

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All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.
-- Max Scheler

Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth
-- Niels Bohr

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Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
-- Terry Eagleton

Source : Terry Eagleton (2011). “Why Marx Was Right”, p.202, Yale University Press

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My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
-- Theodore Robinson

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“I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama”
“Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs.”
“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.”
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
“If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!”

Source : Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.
“It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.”
“Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.”
“I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.”
“Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.”
“Reminding myself of all that I have to be thankful for really helps ground me and keeps me from tipping over into that negative place.”

Source : "Interview with Nikki Deloach, actress in the hit show Awkward". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.