Assertion

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Leslie Stephen

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time...

bell hooks

Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?

John Green

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering.

Albert Camus