Abstention Quotes
Abstention Quote of the day
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.
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.
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.
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.
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
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.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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.
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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.
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.
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.'
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?
