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If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It -- Ken Livingstone
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Abolish all taxation save that upon land values. -- Henry George
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. -- Karl Marx
Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together. -- Nathan Bedford Forrest
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime! -- Evel Knievel
Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status. -- Abigail Biddinger
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. -- Nina Simone
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. -- Herbert Marcuse
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? -- Brigitte Bardot
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. -- Thomas Paine
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. -- Alphonse Karr
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
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. -- Iris Murdoch
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
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime. -- Angela Davis
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. -- John F. Kennedy
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society. -- Ha-Joon Chang
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 again in our political history. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. -- Barry Commoner
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. -- Anatole France
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. -- John Locke
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. -- Thomas Clarkson
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. -- James Buchan
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. -- Mikhail Bakunin
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years. -- Bernie Sanders
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. -- Eugene Ionesco
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. -- D. H. Lawrence
It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. -- John H. Reagan
I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. -- William Hague
we can't abolish prejudice through laws ... -- Belva Ann Lockwood
Belligerents always abolish war after a war. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
A throw of the dice will never abolish chance. -- Stephane Mallarme
If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday. -- Voltaire
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. -- Angela Davis
All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing. -- Elinor Glyn
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man. -- Bertrand Russell
We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us. -- John F. Kennedy
Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs. -- Richard Dawkins
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. -- Mikhail Bakunin
The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. -- John F. Kennedy
The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage. -- Alfred North Whitehead
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems. -- Adora Svitak
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic. -- John Dewey
Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment. -- Donald Trump
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. -- George Orwell
To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another. -- Ivan Illich
Nothing guarantees more applause and more support than the call to abolish the IRS. -- Frank Luntz
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all -- Nikita Khrushchev
Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise. -- William Hague
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. -- Ron White
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. -- Epictetus
She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges. -- Damian Green
Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil. -- Tom Hanks
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. -- Noel Ignatiev
When you try to persistently abolish hatred,at that very moment...you lose focus on love. -- Toba Beta
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better. -- William Faulkner
It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. -- Walter Lippmann
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family... -- John Boorman
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. -- Patrick Henry
Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality -- Jean Rousset
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon. -- Norman Angell
music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them. -- Irene Nemirovsky
We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare. -- Alexander Hamilton
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. -- Anatoly Chubais
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. -- Belva Lockwood
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. -- Belva Lockwood
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. -- Baron de Montesquieu
If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth. -- Harry S. Truman
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals. -- Gary L. Francione
Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind -- Peter Weiss
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. -- Albert Camus
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. -- Mark Twain
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind. -- Peter Kreeft
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers. -- Alphonse Karr
we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it. -- Mary Parker Follett
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. -- Thomas Browne
It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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. -- John Mortimer
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. -- Edward Abbey
And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality. -- Robert Musil
As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow -- Henry Ford
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. -- Marshall McLuhan
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. -- Bill Vaughan
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! -- Ambrose Bierce
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men! -- Heinrich von Treitschke
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. -- Albert Einstein
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. -- Georges Bataille
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction. -- Nawal El Saadawi
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. -- Thomas Paine
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. -- Jean Baudrillard
It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies. -- Bertrand Russell
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. -- John F. Kennedy
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. -- William H. Seward
The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. -- James Russell Lowell
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. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? -- Martin Luther
The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty. -- George Orwell
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first. -- Charlie Chaplin
By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing. -- Ron Paul
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. -- Grover Norquist
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. -- Albert Einstein
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. -- Bernard Crick
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it -- Thomas Szasz
Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax. -- Gary Johnson
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. -- Dylan Thomas
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. -- David Hume
The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property. -- Ludwig von Mises
The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking. -- Adora Svitak
[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it. -- Jeff Cooper
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny. -- Elbridge Gerry
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. -- Hjalmar Branting

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