Abstinence Quotes - Page 3

• [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

  Queen Victoria

  Drinking, Practice, Alcohol

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• If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.

  Jason Evert

  Heart, Praying, Situation

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• Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Sound, Comfortable

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• Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Motivational, Drinking, Beer

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Two

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• It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

  Joseph Heller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Anarchy, Life Is, Here And Now

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• No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Men, Flesh

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XCII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Love Is, Capacity To Love

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• Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Sex, Body, Deeper

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• Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

  J. William Schickel

  Honesty, Virtue, Chastity

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• Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Faithfulness, Virtue

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• Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Religion, Atheism

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• I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, Abuse, Only Child

  "'Penn & Teller: Bullshit!' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.

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• Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: indulgence instead of abstinence.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Frustration, Indulge In, Desire

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

  Lizz Winstead

  Age, Facts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

  Rick Perry

  My Own, Knows, Personal Life

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• To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.

  Molly Ringwald

  Kids, Thinking, Giving

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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• If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

  Catherine Breillat

  Want, Humans, Species

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

  Rachel Maddow

  Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Stds

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• Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

  Benjamin Franklin

  Girl, Ruins, Young

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• Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Solitude, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.251, Modern Library

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• The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

  Cecile Richards

  Girl, Teenage, Real

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• Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Liquor, Pledge

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.360, Courier Corporation

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• It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Giving Up, Soul, Vices

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