Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

— W. S. Gilbert

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

— Octavio Paz

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

— Pema Chodron

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

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

— Anatoly Chubais

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

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

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

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

— John Boorman

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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