Abolish Quotes
222 Abolish quotes by 176 unique authors
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I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.
— Jesse Ventura
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
— H.G. Wells
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
— Ron White
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
— Mao Zedong
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
— William Faulkner
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws…
— Thomas Pynchon
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We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
— George Orwell
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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
— Epictetus
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We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is…
— Lyall Watson
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his…
— Mircea Eliade
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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more…
— Henry James
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If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive…
— Howard Zinn
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Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the…
— Pope John Paul II
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The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle…
— George Orwell
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Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished…
— John F. Kennedy
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It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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