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• Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.

  Norbert Elias

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Norbert Elias (1982). “The history of manners”, Random House Inc

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• Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greatness, Europe, Two

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 4, 1945), 1961.

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• There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

  Lord Acton

  Government, People, Purpose

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• To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Should, Mathematical

  "The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell".

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• As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have maintained this stand throughout the whole period, including WW2, as a Conscientious Objector.Worked to achieve Peace since. It is necessary for individuals to take this stand and maintain it. War never solves anything - it accentuates any problem, whatever it is, and makes matters worse. There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it.

  Donald Saunders

  War, Men, Support

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• He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

  Maria Montessori

  Mean, Psychology, Wish

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.

  David Lange

  Country, Mass Destruction, Issues

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce it? What is the point in renouncing it if you are not attached to it? Only attachment renounces. If you are really non-attached there is no question of any renunciation.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, World, Should

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• This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government as a biased protagonist, armed with the awesome authority of the Federal Government, in addition to rulemaking and umpire powers. The broad grants of power to the Attorney General to initiate and intervene in civil actions would go far toward transforming him into George Orwell's 'Big Brother' of '1984,' in the year 1964.

  Strom Thurmond

  Brother, Years, Umpires

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• The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word carrying frissons of hysterical phobia. Critical mass may be harder to achieve than with some non-confrontational euphemism, but if we did achieve it with the dread word atheist, the political impact would be all the greater.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Impact, Political

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• All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.

  Milarepa

  Religious, Buddhist, Knowing

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• By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Mind, Unhappy

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• What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Warrior, Gentle

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

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• One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.36, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

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• I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits. It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Names, People

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• Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Achieve

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Knowledge, Enemy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible. To be a sannyasin means to live without the mind, and the moment you live without mind you live without society. The mind has created society, and society has created the mind; they are interdependent. To be a sannyasin means to renounce all that is false but not to renounce the world, to renounce all that is unauthentic, to renounce all the answers, to be responsive, spontaneously responsive, and not to think about the reasons, but to be real.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mean, Men

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• If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

  Samuel Adams

  Giving Up, Mistake, Men

  John White, Cecil Calvert Baltimore (2d Baron), Charles Hudson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1904). “The planting of colonies in New England”

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• The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Opportunity, America, Race

  Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.

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• I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  War, Lying, Support

  "The Secret of Victorious Living: Sermons on Christianity Today". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1934.

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• I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Running, Dream, Passion

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• Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

  Robert Browning

  Joy, Thank God, Desire

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• The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Littles, Little Love, Almighty

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.953, Manonmani Publishers

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