Abstention Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. — Ludwig von Mises
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who… — Ludwig von Mises
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and… — Miguel de Unamuno
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. — Vida Dutton Scudder
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. — Aleister Crowley
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing.… — George Bernard Shaw
A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this… — Martin Bashir
Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh,… — George Saunders
In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately… — Mahatma Gandhi
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will… — Anatole France
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you… — Jose Saramago
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention. — Penelope Fitzgerald

Who Wrote These Abstention Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Abstention Quotes as follows: