Abandonment Quotes

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. (Orson Welles)
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. View quote
Bertrand Russell
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions. View quote
George Sarton
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes. View quote
Douglas Coupland
No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. View quote
William L. Shirer
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves. (Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues)
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. View quote
Arthur Miller
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment. View quote
Markus Zusak
I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character. View quote
Tilda Swinton
The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment. View quote
Diablo Cody
You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest. View quote
Carrie P. Meek
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. View quote
David Limbaugh
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. View quote
Kenny Guinn
I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before. (Kenny Loggins)
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. View quote
Mario Balotelli
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse. View quote
Tatum O'Neal
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
My mind is ever toying with economic ideas and relationships. Great novelists and poets have reported occasional abandonment by their muse. The well runs dry, permanently or on occasion. Mine has been a better luck. As I have written elsewhere, there is a vast inventory of topics and problems floating in the back of my mind. More perhaps than I shall ever have occasion to write up for publication. A result that I notice in statistical mechanics may someday help resolve a problem in finance. View quote
Paul Samuelson