Abdication of Responsibility Quotes

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.