#renounce

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. ↗

— Andre Breton

#easily #even #exaltation #experienced #feeling

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

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#alliance #avert #chamberlain #desires #england

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#bombing #country #determined #experience #hearts

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

If the second date seems to be going well, it's pretty much a given that by dessert I'll renounce my faith ↗

— Josh Stern

#faith #humor #pretty #renounce #second-date

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

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

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becoming #cannot #catholic #centuries #christian