We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

- Francois Rabelais

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

- Pietro Aretino

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

- Ovid

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

- Otto von Bismarck

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

- Nell Carter

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

- Mason Cooley

A right delayed is a right denied.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

- Jonathan Raban

Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.

- Gloria Steinem

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

- Friedrich Schiller

I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.

- Alan Zweibel

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

- Eldridge Cleaver

Justice deferred is justice denied.

- Diane Watson

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

- Claud Cockburn

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

- Chaka Fattah

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

- Carter G. Woodson

The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.

- Bob Graham

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

- Barton Gellman

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.

- Aslan Maskhadov