Abdication famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
-- Charles M. Blow

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Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
-- Erica Jong

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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

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Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.
-- Olusegun Obasanjo

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Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
-- R. D. Laing

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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 than rituals.
-- Ralph Nader

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Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
-- Simone Weil

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Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.
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