Renunciation Quote by Simone Weil

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.”

— Simone Weil

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

— Simone Weil

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,…

— Sigmund Freud

Renunciation is in our blood.

— Swami Vivekananda

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking…

— Eric Hoffer

The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as…

— John le Carre

Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have created the…

— Rajneesh

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

— Andrew Carnegie

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as…

— Mark Hopkins

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Although other ( yānas ) assert that liberation will be achieved by renouncing the objects, one will not be bound by the mere appearances…

— Longchen Rabjam