"An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter……" — Vida Dutton Scudder

More Abstention Quotes

This quote is filed under Abstention Quotes, one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce
• Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and… — Ludwig von Mises
• The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their… — Ludwig von Mises
• My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith… — Miguel de Unamuno
• An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining,… — Andrei Tarkovsky
• To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. — Aleister Crowley
• A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and… — George Bernard Shaw
• A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put… — Martin Bashir
• Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind,… — George Saunders
• In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the… — Mahatma Gandhi
• War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every… — Anatole France

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