A Quote by Johan Huizinga

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Johan Huizinga

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Johan Huizinga
Dutch - Historian
December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945

The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment's prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments.

Frank Zindler

Inflation is repudiation.

Calvin Coolidge

The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.

Chuck Schumer

[Nancy] Pelosi personifies this [Democratic] party's repudiation.

Rush Limbaugh

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Ronald Reagan

We need a direct repudiation of Barack Obama and everything for which he stands.

Monica Crowley

The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

Roger Stone

If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.

Errico Malatesta

Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves.

Rush Limbaugh

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

George Bernard Shaw

We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018.

Ben Domenech

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

Bertrand Russell

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Herbert Hoover

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

Marianne Williamson

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Henry David Thoreau

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