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• A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Dice, Chance

  1914 Title of poem, in Cosmopolis, May.

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• The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

  Friedrich Engels

  Slavery, Relation, Property

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.132, Haymarket Books

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• 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

  Children, Economic, Child Labor

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Law, Purpose, Way

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.147, TAN Books

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• 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

  Daughter, Spring, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1624, Delphi Classics

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• Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.

  Emperor Norton

  Party, Years, Republican

  "Imperial Decree" dated 12th Day of August 1869, published in The San Francisco Herald, August 13, 1869.

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• Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs.

  Bruce McCall

  Sports, Brother, Golf

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• Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Poverty, Plutocracy, Ifs

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, February 16, 1890.

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• The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Ukulele, Trying, Killing

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• I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

  George Lansbury

  War, Army, Air

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• If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

  Alphonse Karr

  Friendship, Death, Taken

  'Les Guêpes' January 1849

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• 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

  Commitment, Slavery, Problem

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• Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Time, Genius, Want

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• 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

  Europe, Mexico, Slavery

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• Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger is to abolish all nuclear weapons

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  War, Views, Environmental

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• I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of 'pet' ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Dog, Believe, Cat

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• I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Institutions, Existence

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• A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Virginia, Law

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• 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

  Sophisticated, Enough, Simulation

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• 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

  Mind, Suffering, Scandal

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• Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

  Jean Rousset

  Art, Real, Substitutes

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• But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Russia, Government

  "Christendom in Dublin". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy., 1932.

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• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Retirement, Children, Hollywood

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• The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blood, Community, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many agencies perform functions that are not Federal responsibility. The founders delegated to the Government only strictly defined authority in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. Search the entire Constitution, and you will find no authorization for Congress to subsidize the arts, finance and regulate education or invest tax revenues in energy research.

  David Boaz

  Art, Real, Responsibility

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