Abdication Quotes

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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom? — John Stuart Mill
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress. — Daniel Ellsberg
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange… — Ayn Rand
I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it. — Geoffrey Rush
Voter apathy is a civic abdication. — Charles M. Blow
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery. — Olusegun Obasanjo
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. — Erica Jong
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering… — Carl Bernstein
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. — Simone Weil
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities. — R. D. Laing
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act… — Fulton J. Sheen
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more… — Ralph Nader
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What Iâ€™ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one… — Ayn Rand
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in… — Mikhail Bakunin
The task of all Christian scholarshipâ€”not just biblical studiesâ€”is to study reality as a manifestation of Godâ€™s glory, to speak and write about it with… — John Piper
That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from… — Joel Salatin
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and… — Primo Levi
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid… — C.S. Lewis

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