Abdicates Quotes

#1. Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence - by his own choice.

Ayn Rand

#2. Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.

Nicola Cabibbo

#3. A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

Emile M. Cioran

#5. He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.

John Stuart Mill

#6. Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Martin Buber

#7. All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Frank Chodorov

#8. The State acquires power ... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

Frank Chodorov

#9. For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

Jon Scieszka

#10. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.

Phil Klay

#11. Sir Edward's great object in life was to be seductive. With such personal advantages as he knew himself to possess, and such talents as he did also give himself credit for, he regarded it as his duty. He felt that he was formed to be a dangerous man - quite in line of the Lovelaces.

Jane Austen

#12. People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

Sun Ra

#13. Fashion says 'Me too', and style says 'Only me'.

Geraldine Stutz

#14. I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.

Gerhard Richter

#15. I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

Bonnie Raitt

#16. Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#17. Tut-tut, it looks like rain.

A.A. Milne

#18. You always say you're fine, because in reality you remain quite distant from each other, and you can't just say, Things are terrible. If you only knew how bad I feel today.

Barbara Honigmann