Abstention Quotes

I don't vote.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

I have always been horrified by death sentences, and I decided, as an individual at least, that I could not participate in one, even by abstention … Tell him from me that I did not add my signature to yours for his sake, nor for the person whom I despise with all the force that is in me.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

I don't want to be a part of something I don't want to watch.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

I've never voted, no.

I have no message or answers to social questions.

If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

I have disassociated myself from that book.

I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it.

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

Politics is an unknown territory, which I will never venture.

The [Supreme] Court's authority—possessed neither of the purse nor the sword—ultimately rests on sustained public confidence in its moral sanction. Such feeling must be nourished by the Court's complete detachment, in fact and appearance, from political entanglements and by abstention from injecting itself into the clash of political forces and political settlements.

I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?

Cease to press this enterprise, for you cannot know if what you are doing will be of real advantage to you. Be content to rule in peace your own kingdom, and bear to see us reign over the countries that are ours to govern.

Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.