"No slavery can be abolished without a double……" — Thomas Huxley
"No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man."
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195 Quotes by Thomas Huxley
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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
— Tony Campolo
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All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
— Elinor Glyn
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
— James Madison
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
— Bertrand Russell
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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