If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this…

— Jesse Ventura

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we…

— Martin Luther

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini

But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between…

— Sally Kohn

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

— Anonymous

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

— John Boorman

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too…

— Samuel Gompers

Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way…

— Tadatoshi Akiba

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century,…

— Theodore Zeldin

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

— Anatoly Chubais

Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital…

— Ken Bates

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it…

— Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly…

— James Madison

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with…

— Dylan Thomas