All you need to do is abandon established customs & superstitions & look at the position of every person who lives under a government, whether it be a despotic or the most democratic, & you’ll be horrified at the degree of slavery in which people live while imagining they’re free
—Leo Tolstoy
Please don’t trouble yourself. God didn’t make us to abandon us.
—Michelangelo
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
—George Washington
Do not suffer, for God has not made us to abandon us.
—Michelangelo
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
He cannot abandon his people because he has bound his own name and honor to them in pledge.
—Herman Bavinck