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Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing. -- Thorstein Veblen
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. -- Jose Saramago
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. -- Ambrose Bierce
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. -- Anatole France
I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence. -- Wayne Dyer
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. -- Vida Dutton Scudder
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention. -- Penelope Fitzgerald
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading -- Joseph Hertz
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. -- Aleister Crowley
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech. -- Nathaniel Altman
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. -- Ludwig von Mises
When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. -- Patanjali
A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy? -- Martin Bashir
To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position. -- Ludwig von Mises
Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh, I should tweet about this.' -- George Saunders
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself. -- Miguel de Unamuno

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