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Assertion is a virtue, dominance is a vice. -- Anwesha Roychowdhury
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. -- Samuel Johnson
Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one. -- J. G. Holland
Never argue; repeat your assertion. -- Robert Owen
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. -- George Dennison Prentice
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. -- James Anthony Froude
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. -- Henry Flynt
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion. -- Jessye Norman
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people. -- Don Tapscott
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth. -- Kirk Cameron
I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions. -- Elena Kagan
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it. -- bell hooks
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. -- Samuel Richardson
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. -- Abraham Lincoln
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. -- Frances Wright
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath. -- Rachel Cusk
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. -- Millicent Fawcett
Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq. -- Peter DeFazio
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks. -- John F. Kerry
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left. -- Elliott Abrams
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany. -- Johannes Rau
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. -- Maimonides
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say. -- Rachel Maddow
Never argue, repeat your assertion. -- Robert Owen
Style is effectiveness of assertion. -- George Bernard Shaw
Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad. -- Evelyn Waugh
This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom -- Swami Vivekananda
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. -- George Dennison Prentice
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. -- Oscar Wilde
Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style. -- George Bernard Shaw
Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe. -- Swami Vivekananda
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion. -- Michael Faraday
The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect. -- Kenneth Rogoff
When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path -- Marshall Fritz
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. -- Eric Hoffer
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. -- George Bernard Shaw
This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself. -- David Corn
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. -- Aldous Huxley
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. -- H. G. Wells
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient. -- William James
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains. -- Italo Calvino
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. -- Randolph Bourne
Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques. -- Joost Meerloo
Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong. -- Jennifer Grant
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. -- Akira Kurosawa
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! -- Adolf Hitler
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted. -- Vilfredo Pareto
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. -- Erich Maria Remarque
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. -- T. S. Eliot
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE. -- Max Heindel
To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race. -- Ludwig von Mises
Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events. -- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. -- Allan Sekula
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength. -- Carol Gilligan
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat. -- Robert Crandall
There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world. -- Swami Vivekananda
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need. -- Dennis Lindley
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical. -- Bertrand Russell
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being -- Frederick Hertz
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion. -- Aristotle
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion. -- Samuel Johnson
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths. -- Arthur C. Clarke
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals. -- Francis Schaeffer
Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. -- Sam Harris
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots. -- Oscar Wilde
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate. -- John Ralston Saul
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious. -- Bertrand Russell
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people." -- Don Tapscott
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves. -- Swami Vivekananda
Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard. -- James Huneker
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. -- H. J Eckenrode
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. -- Ralph Ellison
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. -- Ellen Kushner
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact. -- H. G. Wells
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. -- Leo Tolstoy
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. -- David Hillis
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality. -- Cornelius Van Til
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied. -- Kate Millett
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. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making. -- Laurence Steinberg
Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion? -- Sigmund Freud
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty. -- Mark Twain
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes. -- Alan Watts
Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it. -- William Chillingworth
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. -- Arthur Koestler
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. -- Sinclair Lewis
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. -- Rachel Kushner
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. -- Walter Pater
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. -- Anthony Trollope
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. -- George Santayana
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"¦ -- Joseph Conrad
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. -- Edward Snowden
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. -- Sri Aurobindo
True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions. -- John Searle
We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood. -- Wilma Scott Heide
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. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. -- Andrew Mason
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. -- Doug Stanhope
As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945. -- Joseph Rotblat
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. -- Anthony Trollope
Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong. -- Jennifer Grant
There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth. -- John Quincy Adams
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy. -- Dan Barker

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