"The proper aim of giving is to put……" — C.S. Lewis

"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 upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law."

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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the… — 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… — Daniel Ellsberg
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one… — Ayn Rand
I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Fulton J. Sheen

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