Top 31 Abjure Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Abjure

#1. Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.

#2. I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

Galileo Galilei

#3. This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

William Shakespeare

#4. Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.

Gianfranco Fini

#5. The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

Iris Murdoch

#6. Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'

Pico Iyer

#7. The true task of education, Alfred North Whitehead cautioned, is to abjure stale knowledge. "Knowledge does not keep any better than fish," he said. We need to keep it alive, vital, potent.

Howard Zinn

#8. We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

Stephen Jay Gould

#9. We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

John Calvin

#10. Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women ...

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

#11. Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.
I abjure advice-giver.

Frank Bidart

#12. Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.

John Calvin

#13. The real working class, though they hate war and are immune to jingoism, are never really pacifist, because their life teaches them something different. To abjure violence it is necessary to have no experience of it.

George Orwell

#14. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.

Glen Cook

#15. By earth and stone, I abjure you!

Patrick Rothfuss

#16. I abjure you," Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. "I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.

Charlaine Harris

#17. To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Richard Rorty

#18. I, John Hus, fearing to sin against God, and fearing to commit perjury, am not willing to abjure ... any of them.

William Dallmann

#19. The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

John Donne

#20. Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Theodor W. Adorno

#21. Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to self-pity.

Mary Balogh

#22. Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#23. Pills for sickness;
books for ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. When you've got a teenager and a pre-teen, especially a son and a daughter, and they're going at each other at the table, all you really want is just five minutes of quiet, but sometimes I have a moment during the chaos when I think, 'Yes, this is good.'

Al Roker

#25. It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent.

John Dykstra

#26. To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

Thomas Secker