Quotes of: Renounce Keyword

Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. The Yogi renounces his experiences, b...

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

The Social Contract

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

The Social Contract

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

Before Midnight

As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what some...

Noam Chomsky

The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of ...

Richard Holbrooke

We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--especially ourselves and our own will. So we must ...

Prayer for Beginners

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.' Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They...

The Cost of Discipleship

When Peter renounced the world he grew up in and the people he grew up with, I believe it was exactly as heroic as that of a person who, finding himself prone to violent seasickness, renounces yachting. Hell, Pete was hardly ‘in the world’ in the...

The Brothers K

Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come only when one is able to forgive eve...

The Buddha and the Terrorist

But, mad or sane, Matthews was a man of no ordinary persistence. He was not prepared to renounce the peace plan, any more than he would be prepared to renounce his madness a few years later. A month later he was back in France, this time for an exten...

A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Dream on my Dear, and renounce temporal obligations.

Love

God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and making the world fat with the love of God and everyman. ... But the man is old, after all, his fountains of life run dry, without a t...

Mysteries

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Gustav Mahler

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Swami Sivananda

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

Antonio Banderas

[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights, when the grand end of civil government, from ...

Samuel Adams

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Ambrose Bierce

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Theodor Adorno

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

George Gurdjieff