"Abstention means you stayed at home or went……" — Jose Saramago
"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 don't agree with any of the existing parties."
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142 Quotes by Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago has 142 quotes on this site.
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God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We…
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Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land…
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This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say…
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doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time
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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In…
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Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the…
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In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not…
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Each day is a little bit of history
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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos…
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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand…
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We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want…
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More Abstention Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their…
— Ludwig von Mises
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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
— Vida Dutton Scudder
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An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining,…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
— Aleister Crowley
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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put…
— Martin Bashir
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Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind,…
— George Saunders
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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