“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
Simone Weil
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Paulo Coelho
“The man who has renounced war has renounced a grand life.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.”
Anthony Burgess
“Renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation.”
Bhagavad Gita
“By this attitude of complete renunciation you shall be freed from the bondage, good and bad, of Karma. You shall be liberated, and come to Me.”
“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”
Sigmund Freud