Abstinence Quote by J. William Schickel

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

— Norm MacDonald

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

— C. S. Lewis

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy…

— C. S. Lewis

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

— Mason Cooley

Even if it does not conform to todays fashion, we can make the decision to remain chaste, to keep ourselves whole for the one…

— Meicee

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something…

— Doris Lessing

“There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the…

— George Orwell

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

— Margaret Deland