All 39 Uses of
renounce
in
Atlas Shrugged
- They would not renounce their bodies, which was all we asked of them.†
Chpt 1.10
- "That, I won't answer," "You, who loved your work, who respected nothing but work, who despised every kind of aimlessness, passivity and renunciation-have you renounced the kind of life you loved?"†
Chpt 2.3
- "That, I won't answer," "You, who loved your work, who respected nothing but work, who despised every kind of aimlessness, passivity and renunciation-have you renounced the kind of life you loved?"†
Chpt 2.3
- Why were they ready to renounce their highest moments as a sin?†
Chpt 2.4
- But under the numbness, like the first thrust of a seed breaking through, he felt an emotion he could not identify except that it seemed familiar and very distant, like something experienced and renounced long ago.†
Chpt 2.7
- She could renounce the railroad, she thought; she could find contentment here, in this forest; but she would build the path, then reach the road below, then rebuild the road-and then she would reach the storekeeper of Woodstock and that would be the end, and the empty white face staring at the universe in stagnant apathy would be the limit placed on her effort.†
Chpt 2.8
- Neither your kind of renunciation nor my own ….†
Chpt 2.8
- I had always thought that any sort of battle was proper, anything, except renunciation.†
Chpt 2.8
- But we, brought down to renouncing and giving up!†
Chpt 2.8
- I can't accept renunciation.†
Chpt 2.9
- We cannot serve him by renunciation.†
Chpt 2.9
- It was as if the life he had been about to renounce were given back to him by the two essentials he needed: by his food and by the presence of a rational being.†
Chpt 2.10
- Yet no one, not the lowest of humans, is ever able fully to renounce his brain.†
Chpt 3.1
- She felt that no problem existed, that nothing could stand beside the fact of seeing him and nothing would ever have the power to make her leave-and, simultaneously, that she would have no right to look at him if she were to renounce her railroad.†
Chpt 3.2
- She felt the anxious wonder she had never fully named or dismissed: wonder whether this feeling would bring him down to the ugliness of renunciation.†
Chpt 3.2
- The relief did not come from the knowledge that he would not renounce her, nor from arty assurance that she would win-the relief came from the certainty that he would always remain what he was.†
Chpt 3.2
- A morality that dares to tell you to find happiness in the renunciation of your happiness-to value the failure of your values-is an insolent negation of morality.†
Chpt 3.7
- I am the man who has earned the thing you did not fight for, the thing you have renounced, betrayed, corrupted, yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding as your guilty secret, spending your Me in apologies to every professional cannibal, lest it be discovered that somewhere within you, you still long to say what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.†
Chpt 3.7
- It does not matter who then becomes the profiteer on his renounced glory and tormented soul, a mystic God with some incomprehensible design or any passer-by whose rotting sores are held as some inexplicable claim upon him-it does not matter, the good is not for him to understand, his duty is to crawl through years of penance, atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts, his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.†
Chpt 3.7
- Man's good-say both-is to give up his personal desires, to deny himself, renounce himself, surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives.†
Chpt 3.7
- If you achieve the career you wanted, after years of struggle, it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival, it is.†
Chpt 3.7
- If you renounce all personal desires and dedicate your life to those you love, you do not achieve full virtue: you still retain a value of your own, which is your love.†
Chpt 3.7
- If you start, however, as a passionless blank, as a vegetable seeking to be eaten, with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce, you will not win the crown of sacrifice.†
Chpt 3.7
- It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted.†
Chpt 3.7
- Your morality tells you to renounce the material world and to divorce your values from matter.†
Chpt 3.7
- The man who loves one woman, but sleeps with anotherthe man who admires the talent of a worker, but hires another-the man who considers one cause to be just, but donates his money to the support of another-the man who holds high standards of craftsmanship, but devotes his effort to the production of trash-these are the men who have renounced matter, the men who believe that the values of their spirit cannot be brought into material reality.†
Chpt 3.7
- Do you say it is the spirit that such men have renounced?†
Chpt 3.7
- Renounce your consciousness and you become a brute.†
Chpt 3.7
- Renounce your body and you become a fake.†
Chpt 3.7
- Renounce the material world and you surrender it to evil.
Chpt 3.7 *renounce = formally reject, give up, or turn away from
- Give to that which you do not enjoy, serve that which you do not admire, submit to that which you consider evilsurrender the world to the values of others, deny, reject, renounce your self.†
Chpt 3.7
- Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.†
Chpt 3.7
- The first wish men to profit by renouncing the earth, the second wish men to inherit the earth by renouncing all profit.†
Chpt 3.7
- The first wish men to profit by renouncing the earth, the second wish men to inherit the earth by renouncing all profit.†
Chpt 3.7
- If you surrender your power to perceive, if you accept the switch of your standard from the objective to the collective and wait for mankind to tell you what to think, you will find another switch taking place before the eyes you have renounced: you will find that your teachers become the rulers of the collective, and if you then refuse to obey them, protesting that they are not the whole of mankind, they will answer: 'By what means do you know that we are not?†
Chpt 3.7
- Somewhere in. the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of dependence that he renounced his rational faculty.†
Chpt 3.7
- …to spend his years in the obscurity of menial employment, keeping to himself the fire of his mind, never giving it form, expression or reality, refusing to bring it into a world he despises-the man who is defeated by revulsion, the man who renounces before he has started, the man who gives up rather than give in, the man who functions at a fraction of his capacity, disarmed by his longing for an ideal he has not found-they are on strike, on strike against unreason, on strike against…†
Chpt 3.7
- …the same child, you declare that the looters who rule the People's States will surpass this country in material production, since they are the representatives of science, but that it's evil to be concerned with physical wealth and that one must renounce material prosperityyou declare that the looters' ideals are noble, but they do not mean them, while you do; that your purpose in fighting the looters is only to accomplish their aims, which they cannot accomplish, but you can; and that…†
Chpt 3.7
- How many corpses do you intend to pile up before you renounce it-your guns, your power, your controls and the whole of your miserable altruistic creed?†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(renounce) to formally reject, give up, or turn away from
(as in to give up the power of a monarch, to change belief, behavior, support, or association)