And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“no wonder you left." Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“I release the trigger of my gun and drop it. Before I can lose my nerve, I turn and press my forehead… — Tris Prior Copy Share Image
The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice." "What Choice?" "Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so… — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Copy Share Image
Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was...… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
