Abstention Quotes

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.