Refuse Quotes

The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change.

Non-collaboration is a dynamic weapon. We must refuse. We must use it to send this government to the grave.

Why should we continue enriching those who steal the products of our sweat and blood? Those who exploit us and refuse us the right to organise trade unions?

I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.

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 refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

I refuse to accept the idea that the 'isness' of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal 'oughtness' that forever confronts him.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

It is a very fine thing to refuse an invitation, but it is a good thing to wait till you get it first.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can't refuse it what to be got to be.

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.