“This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.”

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.

Even God cannot change the past.

They’re right there waiting for it. A community of people who’ve been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

Of course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Nairobi.

We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.

Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me.