Abolished Quotes

124 Abolished quotes by 102 unique authors

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances. — Napoleon Bonaparte
War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished. — Vladimir Lenin
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. — Aleister Crowley
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a… — Angela Davis
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. — Angela Davis
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has… — Nhat Hanh
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. — Thomas Huxley
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. — Thomas Paine
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. — L. Neil Smith
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
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
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And… — Aldous Huxley
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a… — George Orwell
Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything… — Robert Anton Wilson
But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of… — Voltairine de Cleyre
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished… — Albert Einstein
In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We… — Philip K. Dick
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
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. — George Orwell
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot… — Baruch Spinoza
I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it. — Susan Butcher

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