Best Abstention Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: "Darling, it's not only about sex"

“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”

Men Way War Suffering Literature Violence Ready Disappear Persecution Abolish Abstention

Author:Anatole France

“Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.”

Reading Worship Mere Scripture Sabbath Abstention

Author:Joseph Hertz

“I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I have been liable to fits of ether dipsomania, kept away at intervals only by rigorous abstention from thought on the subject.”

Has Beens Moments Subjects Theory Fit November Intervals Liable Abstention

Author:Lord Kelvin

“After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.”

World Looks Sides Partners Traditional Ministers Germany Allies Berlin Abstention Guidos

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.”

War Fighting Animal Speech Negative Flesh Nonviolence Negative Thoughts Abstention

Author:Nathaniel Altman

“The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.”

Men War Desire Truth Is Sake Passionate Missions Live Life Catholicism Submit Affirmation Agnosticism Rationalism Negation Abstention Passionate Desire

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.”

Men Saving Outcomes Consumption Restriction Gift From God Free Gifts Abstention

Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.”

Individual Social Position Tasks Consumers Buying Abstention

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.”

Social Wealth Evidence Standing Labor Mark Conventional Abstention

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“Patanjali said that when you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. Steadfast means you never slip. I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.”

People Thinking Feels Mean Said Worry Support Creatures Judgment Hatred Missions Harm Cease Slips Living Creatures Steadfast Your Presence Abstention

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.”

Feels Creatures Harm Cease Living Creatures Steadfast Your Presence Abstention

Author:Patanjali

“Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.”

Mean Home Political Party Conscience Vote Agree Beach Blank Casting Abstention

Author:Jose Saramago

“Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”

“A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.”

Affair Inactivity Abstention

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.”

Mean Doe Chastity Arcs Chaste Abstention

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.”

Men Should Common Quality Liberty Economic Economics Determine Consumers Buying Quantity Sovereign Common Man Abstention Quantity And Quality

Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.”

Source: Bureaucracy

“My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.”

Men Writing Sake Affirmation Negation Abstention

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.”

Motivational Joy Elements Self Control Restraint Will Power Power And Control Self Power Discipline And Self Control Abstention

Book:The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual

Source: The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual

“An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.”

Needs Artist Observation Artificial Abstention Abstaining

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.”

Use Financial Horrible Absurd Submission Constraints Unnatural Thelema Abstention

Book:The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1

Source: The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1

“A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line”

Ifs Believe Made Three Lines Animal Sacrifice Blood Bird Killing Fishes Dinner Horrible Honour Vegan Wretched Corpses Solemn Pretext Disinterested Abstention Blood Sacrifice

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?”

Doe Nations Taste Alcohol Beer Teenage Romney Great Nations Jeopardy Candidacy Abstention

Author:Martin Bashir

“The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.”

Real Economy Consumers Boss Capitalist Market Economy Abstention Real Boss

Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power.”

People May Long Play Quiet Conformity Gestures Domination Restriction Withdrawal Pentagon Non Conformity Inhibitions Primacy Abstention

Author:Lewis Mumford

“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

Ifs Earth Vote Israel Flats Resolution Declaring Abba Abstention Algeria

Author:Abba Eban

“Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh, I should tweet about this.'”

Should Mind Littles Ideas Hate Voice I Hate Deliberate Tweet Of My Mind Abstention

Author:George Saunders

“In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.”

Has Beens Shows Past Evil Opinion Support Violence Duty Humble Violent Cooperation Penalties Submission Non Violence Countrymen Withdrawal Abstention

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.”

Certain Virtue Certainty Abstention

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World