Refuse Quotes

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.