Abdication Quote by Charles M. Blow Download Open image “Voter apathy is a civic abdication.” — Charles M. Blow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abdication Apathy Civics Voters
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.” — Hazen Pingree Copy Share Image
“Then there are spurious intellectual discussions about ‘voter apathy’ and so on, as if such factors could possibly explain and somehow justify massive disengagement… — Paul McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Every time we go into the voting booth, we are choosing the moral and spiritual direction of our nation. That is a privilege and… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were both said… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats… — James Carville Copy Share Image
If possible, I want to hear POLITICS defined without either sympathy or apathy. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.” — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Often, those with the most to lose as a result of a poor policy move are the most vulnerable and most marginalized. Those folks… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was the first time I was going… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually… — David Cannadine 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], too often… — Carl Bernstein 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 undisclosed interests… — George Will 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 others in… — Ayn Rand 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 necessarily ends… — Mikhail Bakunin 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 the appeaser's… — Ayn Rand 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 self-abdication, because… — Ayn Rand 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 is an… — 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 elections little… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
