Abstinence Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence…

— Leo Tolstoy

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

— Albert Einstein

“If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.”

— Leo Tolstoy

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”

— Gretchen Rubin

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely…

— Leo Tolstoy

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

— Seneca the Younger

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

— Henry George

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.” In…

— Gretchen Rubin

Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most…

— Erich Fromm