Quotes About Abstention

I would like the option of having neither.

Include me out.

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.

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.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

I have no desire to ever be involved in the image-board world again.

Gandhi gave a statement at his trial. "I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that as evil can only be sustained by violence, withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence," he said.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

if monasteries accepted the irreligious and permitted abstention from prayer, I'd become a monk.

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

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and drying out and floating dryly away, and

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It is so easy to do a dirty thing with self-satisfaction when it consists in abstaining from action.

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

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

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.

Part of brand management is what you don't do, not what you do.

The most significant piece of information in this whole affair is the historic level of voter abstention in the June 2017 legislative elections: 51.2 per cent.

Gentlemen, include me out.

I haven't had sex in so long I am considering becoming a born again virgin.

Putin, it seemed, didn't see how intervention in Libya could produce a good outcome for Russia; instead, he viewed Russia's abstention as Medvedev caving in to American influence. In the name of advancing the Reset, Medvedev had just violated a central principle of Russian (and Soviet) foreign policy: resisting American military interventions

The best kind of self-control is to avoid situations that require self-control