Negation Quotes

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed. - Alexander Haig

Unless the contract says 'as is' everything is up for negation. Even then, the buyer usually still has the right to ask for repairs or back out of the contract. - Eric Cunliffe

This is the negation of God erected into a system of government. - William E. Gladstone

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. - Simone Weil

Self-abnegation, that rare virtue, that good men preach and good women practice. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action. - Joseph Conrad

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. - Alexander Haig

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. - Gustave Courbet