Renounce Quotes
175 Renounce quotes by 132 unique authors
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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
— Antonio Banderas
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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
— Theodor Adorno
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
— Ambrose Bierce
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that…
— Andre Breton
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
— Albert Camus
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute…
— Alexis Carrel
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy…
— Adolf Hitler
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I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the…
— Adolf Hitler
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Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good.…
— Sivananda
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
— Joseph Conrad
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Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible.…
— Rajneesh
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If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand…
— Samuel Adams
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
— Mark Twain
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The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo…
— Richard Dawkins
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I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government…
— Strom Thurmond
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To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce…
— Rajneesh
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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In…
— Thomas Merton
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We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not…
— Mother Teresa
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