“no wonder you left." Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.” — Veronica Roth 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
Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God . — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea. — Christopher Hitchens 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
You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I look at myself head-on again. For the first time, the idea of leaving my Abnegation identity behind doesn’t make me nervous;… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is… — Veronica Roth 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
“I guess I grew suspicious of both. Power and knowledge," I say. "To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people… — Veronica Roth 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her,… — Veronica Roth 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
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
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
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
“Dear David, I’m sorry, but it’s not going to happen the way we planned it. I can’t do it. I know you’re… — 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
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
The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of… — Emma Goldman 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
“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
Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless,… — Veronica Roth 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
“I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector… — 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
“I smirk a little. I did it, I put that expression on his face. I am not the perfect Abnegation child, doomed… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony;… — 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
“Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become... I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries. That’s what he could be, if he trusted himself… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
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