Life is the elimination of what is dead.

I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for…

— Rigoberta Menchu

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

— Anonymous

The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without…

— Ludwig von Mises

Throughout my work, my subjects are being told that they must change their diet in order to make the adjustment into the new world.…

— Dolores Cannon

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

— Helmut Jahn

What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and…

— Nikola Tesla

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

— Leon Trotsky

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

— Herbert Hoover

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

— Jack Welch

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a…

— Gautama Buddha

During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Washing your hands of something requires soap.”

— Craig D Lounsbrough

Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

— Bayard Rustin

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for…

— John Burroughs

The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything…

— Vladimir Nabokov