Abolish Quotes
222 quotes by 176 authors
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at…
— Warren E. Burger
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Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties,…
— Emperor Norton
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Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport…
— Bruce McCall
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Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them…
— Maria Weston Chapman
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Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile…
— Walter Duranty
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The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
— Anatoly Chubais
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I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say…
— Unknown Author
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The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
— Norman Angell
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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
— Alphonse Karr
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Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment,…
— Thomas Szasz
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily…
— William H. Seward
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Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to…
— Tadatoshi Akiba
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I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated…
— Gary L. Francione
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I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
— Gary L. Francione
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A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace…
— Jean Baudrillard
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A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
— Peter Kreeft
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