I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it…

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby…

— Plato

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

— Jalal Talabani

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing…

— Leon Trotsky

“Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.”

— Thomas Sowell

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much,…

— Jonathan Edwards

We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.

— Toni Bentley

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it…

— Elaine Stritch

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

— Zoroaster

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

— Epictetus

Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It's also…

— Kat Timpf

“THAT you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves, from these you do…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are near I abstain myself,but when you are away I badly miss you sweetheart.

— Pappi Reddy

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke