Abdication Quotations

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.

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.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

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

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

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.

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

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

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

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.