Abdicates Quotes

10 quotes by 8 authors

• Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,… — Marcel Proust
• All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov
• The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov
• A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. — Martin Buber
• Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where… — Jacques Barzun
• If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in… — Jacques Ellul
• The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran
• Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If… — Ayn Rand
• Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power. — Martin Buber

Who Wrote These Abdicates Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 10 Abdicates Quotes as follows:

• 2 Abdicates Quotes by Frank Chodorov
• 2 Abdicates Quotes by Martin Buber
• 1 Abdicates Quote by Jacques Ellul
• 1 Abdicates Quote by Emile M. Cioran
• 1 Abdicates Quote by Ayn Rand
• 1 Abdicates Quote by Marcel Proust
• 1 Abdicates Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Abdicates Quote by Jacques Barzun