...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell. — Alan Borovoy Copy Share Image
The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
