#renounce

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#among #classes #comfort #great #harsh

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#errors #experience #light #our #renounce

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#article #categorical #central #constitution #declare

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#artist #attain #before #everything #good

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#general #good #i #language #long

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#cause #demonstration #governments #into #israel

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

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#give #his #like #man #pleasures

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. ↗

— David Mallet

#courted #deeds #deserve #despises #fame

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. ↗

— Milovan Djilas

#come #living #own #part #rarest

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#oneself #order #ought #party #remain