It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
Caleb Cushing

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Bill Watterson

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.
Teri Hatcher

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Christopher Lasch

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Annie Besant

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
Boy George

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
Edwin Louis Cole

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.
Jan Schakowsky

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Charles Bradlaugh

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
Angelina Grimke

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
Carol Moseley Braun

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.
Simon Travaglia

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
Keith Miller

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
Barbara Boxer

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
Simon Wiesenthal

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
Gail Sheehy

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Lewis Mumford

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
Lindsey Buckingham