D Quotes
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“Denying a disabled person their social security benefits is one of the meanest things a government can do to a human.”
“Denying Al Qaeda safe haven was the right decision.”
“Denying, believing and doubting are to men what running is to horses.”
Source: Pensées
“Denying disabled people their disability benefits and workers compensation is a form of suppression.”
“Denying disabled workers their disability and workers compensation payments is akin to turning them into a slave.”
“Denying disabled workers their Workers Compensation for occupational disease is a form of government abuse.”
“Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“Denying facts does not change facts.”
“Denying God is "ad hominem" to all humanity. Atheism commits ad hominem at every moment because it attacks God who is our Self. In this way, every man is characterized as incapable of achieving the goal, which is the main ad hominem attack.”
Source: A Guide to the Psyche of Atheism, Religion and Philosophy and Their Impact on Contemporary Spirituality
“Denying God is merely denying yourself — a refusal to rise to the spiritual or supra-consciousness realm.”
“Denying my Workers Compensation for occupational diseases strengthened my resolve to shut down the toxic companies involved with damaging my health.”
“Denying oneself of the experiences that will ultimately move you out of your comfort zone and eventually will make you a better human being.”
“Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.”
“Denying pleasure is equally detrimental as being overly attached.”
Source: The Tantric Curse
“Denying racism is the new racism.”
“Denying rumors gave them more power.”
Source: Fair Coin
“Denying science is resisting the power that has been given to us.”
“Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.”
Source: Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story
“Denying someone [else] justice just because you do not yet have your own is never a good idea. I am also convinced we cannot have disability liberation without animal liberation--they are intimately tied together. What if, rather than dismissing or disassociating for the struggle of animals, we embraced what political theorist Claire Jean Kim calls an 'ethics of avowal,' a recognition that oppressions are linked, and that we can be 'open in meaningful and sustained way to the suffering and claims of other subordinated groups, even or perhaps especially in the course of political battle'? Compassion is not a limited resource.”
Source: Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
“Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society. It is even more irrational to believe that it is whites who are at the receiving end of discrimination. Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy.”
Source: What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy
“Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat.”
“Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.”
“Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.”
“Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“Denying those [negative] feelings locks us away from ourselves and so from authentic relationships with others. Denying those feelings doesn’t make them go away but somewhere else, leaving the people around us unsure of what we mean, who we are, and how we feel. Denying them takes us to a place others sense but do not see. It is a place no girl deserves to be.”
Source: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
“Denying what you are didn't keep people from knowing what you are."
"And flaunting it isn't what saved you."
Ykka takes a deep breath. The muscles in her jaw flex, relax. "And that would be why I asked you do this, Cutter. But let's move on."
So it goes on.”
Source: The Obelisk Gate
“Denying your faith in the Lord was the ultimate no-no”
Source: The Truth About Alice
“Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living.”
“Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.”
Source: West with the Night
“Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers.”
“Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.”
“Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.”
“Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.”
“Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.”
“Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.”
“Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.”
“Denzel Washington was so great at The Great Debaters, so focused and talented. That was just an honor to be cast in that, for the most part. I was fat, and I guess the casting director sold him on me. He actually said to me during the scene, "You know, I've always found that less is more," which is an expression that you've heard a million times, but it was a nice way of telling me I was overdoing it.”
“Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.”
“Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.”
“Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.”
“Deodată crescu în el o tristeţe plumburie. Singurul lucru pe care puteau să-l facă era să-şi lingă rănile unul altuia. Dar vor linge mereu şi rănile nu se vor vindeca niciodată, iar la urmă limbile li se vor toci.
—N-am priceput. Dar viața nu e ceva ce se poate pricepe.
Există tot felul de vieţi, iar uneori partea opusă a colinei pare mai verde. Pentru mine cel mai greu este că nu ştiu unde vom ajunge cu traiul ăsta, dar probabil că asta nu se ştie niciodată, indiferent ce fel de viaţă duci.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“DEONTOLOGY AND CONCEQUENTIALISM, A NOVEL APPROACH: Consequentialism and Deontology (Deontological Ethics) are two contrasting categories of Normative Ethics, the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental principles that determine the morality of human actions (or non-actions). Their supposed difference is that while Consequentialism determines if an action is morally right or wrong by examining its consequences, Deontology focuses on the action itself, regardless of its consequences.
To the hypothetical question “Should I do this man a little injustice, if by this I could save the whole humanity from torture and demise?”, the philosopher Immanuel Kant, a pure deontologist (absolutist) answers: “Fiat justitia, pereat mundus” (Do justice even if the whole world would perish).
Superficially, it seems that a decent deontologist don’t care about consequences whatsoever. His/her one and only duty is to invariably obey to pre-existing, universal moral rules without exceptions: “do not kill”, “do not lie”, “do not use another human as a means to an end”, and so on.
At this point I would like to present my thesis on this subject. The central idea here is that deontological ethics only appears to be indifferent to the consequences of an action. In fact, it is only these very consequences that determine what our moral rules and ethical duties should be. For example, the moral law “do not kill”, has its origin to the dire consequences that the killing of another human being brings about; for the victim (death), the perpetrator (often imprisonment or death) and for the whole humanity (collapse of society and civilization).
Let us discuss the well-worn thought experiment of the mad axeman asking a mother where their young children are, so he can kill them. We suppose that the mother knows with 100% certainty that she can mislead him by lying and she can save her children from certain death (once again: supposing that she surely knows that she can save her children ONLY by lying, not by telling the truth or by avoiding to answer). In this thought experiment the hard deontologist would insist that it is immoral to lie, even if that would lead to horrible consequences. But, I assert that this deontological inflexibility is not only inhuman and unethical, it is also outrightly hypocritical. Because if the mother knows that their children are going to be killed if she tells the truth (or does not answer) and they are going to be saved if she tells a harmless lie, then by telling the truth she disobeys the moral law “do not kill/do not cause the death of an innocent”, which is much worse than the moral rule “do not lie”. The fact that she does not kill her children with her own hands is completely irrelevant. She could have saved them without harming another human, yet she chose not to. So the absolutist deontologist chooses actively to disobey a much more important moral law, only because she is not the immediate cause, but a cause via a medium (the crazy axeman in this particular thought experiment).
So here are the two important conclusions: Firstly, Deontology in normative ethics is in reality a “masked consequentialism”, because the origin of a moral law is to be found in its consequences e.g. stealing is generally morally wrong, because by stealing, someone is deprived of his property that may be crucial for his survival or prosperity. Thus, the Deontology–Consequentialism dichotomy is a false one.
And secondly, the fact that we are not the immediate “vessel” by which a moral rule is broken, but we nevertheless create or sustain a “chain of events” that will almost certainly lead to the breaking of a moral law, does surely not absolve us and does not give us the right to choose the worst outcome. Mister Immanuel Kant would avoid doing an innocent man an injustice, yet he would choose to lead billions of innocent people to agonizing death.”
Source: NOVEL PHILOSOPHY: New ideas about Ethics, Epistemology, Science and the sweet Life
“Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.”
“Depart from the deeds of darkness. Return to path of light.”
“Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.”
“Depart, Satan,' she said, with a complete lack of enthusiasm. — Bats 2015”
“Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.”
Source: Meditations
“Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
Across departed summers: whispers came
From voices, long ago resolved again
Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same,
As in a spectral mirror wandered there.”
“Departing at dawn, the rising sun lit up the hills before them, exposing their prominence and dangers. It was as though the sun was issuing a fair warning that death was an ever-present companion among the rocky crags and cliffs.”
Source: The Royal Regiment
“Departing summer hath assumed
An aspect tenderly illumed,
The gentlest look of spring;
That calls from yonder leafy shade
Unfaded, yet prepared to fade,
A timely carolling.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...