Abolish Quotes
222 Abolish quotes by 176 unique authors
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I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
— Belva Ann Lockwood
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
— Nina Simone
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I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak out for an…
— Mairead Corrigan
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Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government shall be found…
— George Mason
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The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent…
— Ernest Rutherford
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A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
— Stephane Mallarme
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it…
— Barry Commoner
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No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained…
— Pope Leo XIII
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And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish…
— Robert Musil
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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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