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Abdication Quotes

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

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

Simone Weil
Love Is, Abdication, Command

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

R. D. Laing
Betrayal, Abdication, Normal

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

Olusegun Obasanjo
Betrayal, Abdication, Patriot

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
Kings, Abdication, Becoming

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

Erica Jong
Pregnancy, Growing, Abdication
Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.65, Open Road Media

The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson
Abdication, Belief, Behavior
c.1882 Complete Poems, no.1551 (first published 1945).

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Charles M. Blow
Apathy, Abdication, Voters
"We Should Be in a Rage" by Charles M. Blow, www.nytimes.com. April 9, 2014.

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
Dark, Age, Abdication
Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.344, Seven Stories Press

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
Fate, Abdication, Steps

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