Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.
John Stuart MillStichwörter: innocence morality abstinence characteristics commandments nobleness paganism precepts reaction
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Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
Erma BombeckStichwörter: diet abstinence self-indulgence
Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.
Junot DíazStichwörter: death abstinence
Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.
Marcus AureliusStichwörter: abstinence sobriety socrates
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?
John GreenStichwörter: humor abstinence teens twitter
Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had not taken, but because somehow it felt as though it would violate his teachers who still sat behind prison wire in Lhadrung.
Eliot PattisonStichwörter: alcohol abstinence
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
Jacqueline CareyStichwörter: virginity youth sex abstinence eagerness horniness
There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.
Joseph LiveseyStichwörter: food alcohol abstinence bread nourishment temperance ale
I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.
Anne BrontëStichwörter: parents children evil excess moderation control abstinence upbringing temperance
How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?
Daria SnadowskyStichwörter: abstinence falling-in-love std
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