“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
In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter."-Tris Prior” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. And I can’t be controlled.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone, even if they don't know it.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It is the abnegation of self-will that gives room for the gods to enter through saints.” — Lois Mcmaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.) — African Spir Copy Share Image
The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“A saint addicted to abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he is very likely to infect you with an incurable poverty, a stiffening… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“It is this outer reach of existential abnegation – the moment where subjective identity deserts itself and becomes enslaved without consciousness of… — Emily Apter Copy Share Image
This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud.… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now sees hurling themselves into the chasm as a viable… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image