Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We will not be thanked by anyone for dragging the country out of the E.U. on a deal for which the public… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
“To restrain one's ambitions, in recognition of the rights of others, is a contributor to international order, not an abdication from it.” — David C. Hendrickson Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I do feel sorry for the Prince of Wales, waiting and waiting, while his mother looks better and better. She's not staying… — Sarah Bradford Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The truth is you cannot command the respect of the world when you spend years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto… — George Will Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the task of all Christian scholarship- not just biblical studies- is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it's collective.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists],… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
“We have had word that some political groups are calling for the forced abdication of Emperor Kaito.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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