Renounce Quotes

175 Renounce quotes by 132 unique authors

The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;â€”war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of… — Alexander Hamilton
The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it. — Tariq Ramadan
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a… — Moshe Dayan
If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there… — Dick Cavett
While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery, renounce their faith… — Peter Tatchell
I am not saying renounce sex, I am saying transform it. It need not remain just biological: bring some spirituality to it. While making love,… — Rajneesh
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper. — Gautama Buddha
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children… — Gautama Buddha
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human… — Ellen Terry
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. — Jean-Georges Noverre
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its… — Jean-Georges Noverre
When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and… — Paulo Coelho
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows… — Rex Stout
Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance. — Lois Capps
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.Â I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to… — Anais Nin
The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq. — Peter DeFazio
Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy,… — William Gurnall
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something. — Michelangelo Antonioni
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,… — Arthur Koestler
If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of… — Sister Nivedita

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