Quotes about Refusal to Cooperate

Richard Edelman

To be silent is to be complicit.

Thomas More

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

Sam Harris

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

Dalton Trumbo

I was convicted of Contempt of Congress which was a just verdict for I had extensive contempt for that Congress and a few other subsequent ones.

Trumbo was one of the Liberal victims of McCarthyism, the Red Scare and the Hollywood Blacklist because he refused to testify before the Congressional Committees regarding other people’s political beliefs and affiliations. He has long espoused Liberal causes and was extremely influential writing two Academy Award winning screenplays which were awarded to other screenwriters who were fronting for him as he was Blacklisted as a member of the original “Hollywood 10”. Today, convictions of that type would not stand Constitutional muster, but in those days it did. Trumbo had been a Communist for a while as he explained in {623794}.

Cardi B

A lot of designers, they did tell me no. They didn't really wanna work with me.

Democritus

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

W. Averell Harriman

I will not eat dinner with that man [Richard M. Nixon].

Columnist Joseph Alsop was hosting a dinner party and as Harrimann arrived, he ran into Richard M. Nixon who had just defeated Helen Gahagan with dirty, smear campaign tactics. The Governor started to leave. This was what he told his hosts. Mrs. Alsop implored him to stay. He did, but at dinner, turned over his plate, turned off his hearing aid and refused to eat or speak

Department of Energy

Do not agree that any alleged violation exists .... Do not point out any possible/potential problem areas .... Do not volunteer any information.

Cam'ron

I won't talk to the D.C. police.

Refusal to Cooperate Quotes