"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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More Abolishes Quotes
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Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
— Germaine Greer
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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and…
— Friedrich Engels
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I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood.…
— Basil Bunting
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or…
— Ludwig von Mises
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a…
— Roland Barthes
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There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism…
— Karl Marx
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If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just…
— William J. Clinton
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Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish…
— Karl Barth
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