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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. -- Leslie Stephen
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. -- Christopher Hitchens
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. -- Jonathan Raban
We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty. -- Joel Fuhrman
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished. -- Robert Dallek
Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there. -- Elliott Abrams
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes. -- Krist Novoselic
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. -- Gerrit Smith
It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. -- Andrew Greeley
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. -- E. T. Bell
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life. -- Margaret Mahy
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. -- Derek Bok
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. -- Orson Pratt
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. -- John Drinkwater
The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis. -- Wilhelm Ostwald
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. -- Tom Stoppard
President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand. -- Helen Thomas
TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast. -- Jonathan Zittrain
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. -- Jules Verne
Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? -- Tony Campolo
The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. -- Glenn Greenwald
I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. -- Douglas Coupland
In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published. -- Alan Dershowitz
Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they have struggled because there has been more than one court case in which it was asserted the FCC didn't have the authority to punish ISPs for abusing their control over the broadband channel. -- Vint Cerf
The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false. -- Laozi
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. -- Aaron Burr
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. -- Malcolm X
I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause. -- David Hume
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man. -- C. S. Lewis
Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other. -- Diogenes
Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship -- AainaA-Ridtz
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted." -- Jonathan Raban
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. -- H. G. Wells
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. -- Eric Temple Bell
I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. -- Charlotte Bronte
Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion. -- Aristotle
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey. -- Loren Eiseley
Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -- Christopher Hitchens
It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters. -- Bill Vaughan
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. -- Wallace Stevens
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures. -- Joan Crawford
No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done. -- John Wesley
Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. -- Aldo Leopold
In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path. -- Kevin Kelly
It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm. -- William Winwood Reade
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. -- E. T. Bell
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men -- Orson Pratt
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. -- E. F. Schumacher

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