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Abdicates Quotes by Martin Buber
- Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.
- Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
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- Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Jacques Ellul
- The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran