Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through…

— Patanjali

Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

“Male masturbation is not a release, it is a squandering. Anyone who begins to no-fap will soon discover this. Like most things, we have…

— Jack Freestone

Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.

— Bill Maher

When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As…

— Christine O'Donnell

“Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.”

— Rachael Allen

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

— Mark Twain

“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them.…

— Hillary Clinton

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

— Rachel Maddow

While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

— Isuna Hasekura

“The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by…

— Robert Farrar Capon

I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to…

— Jenny McCarthy

How do we want our air? Pure. How do we want our water? Pure. How do we want sex on our wedding night? Pure.

— Molly Kelly

“There’s gratification in abstaining from the easy choice. Instant gratification can bring more suffering than pleasure. If I do the hard thing, the next…

— Cecily Wang