Abolish Quotes

Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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 as they can.

The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

Nothing guarantees more applause and more support than the call to abolish the IRS.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

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.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

To abolish fear correctly is to nurture law and order.

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment.

Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

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 improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.