Abolish Quotes - Page 8

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

  Albert Camus

  God, Should Have, Ifs

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• 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.

  Lord Acton

  Race, Law, Class

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Rushing

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• We can't abolish prejudice through laws.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  Law, Prejudice, Legislation

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• A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Quality, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.233

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Desire, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a fixed exchange rate, abolish your central bank and adopt a currency board instead. Either extreme; a fixed exchange rate through a currency board, but no central bank, or a central bank plus truly floating exchange rates; either of those is a tenable arrangement. But a pegged exchange rate with a central bank is a recipe for trouble.

  Milton Friedman

  Recipes, Want, Asia

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• Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.

  Sam Harris

  Years, Our World, Ignorant

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• If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

  Voltaire

  Sunday, Want, Christianity

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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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• Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Trials, Sanctuary, Proposal

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• Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

  Adora Svitak

  Causes, Adults, Problem

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

  William Hague

  Promise, Half, Brown

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• Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

  Charles Simic

  Art, Found Objects, Sculpture

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• 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).

  Mark Twain

  Men, Might, Uncertain

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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• 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

  Thinking, Doe, Heavenly Beings

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Heart, Mean, Suffering

  "On the Roof of the World". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, December 1987.

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• Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dream, War, Race

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• 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

  Space, Doe, Photograph

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Regret, Thinking, Degrees

  "Beyond Our Ken: A Guide to the Battle for London". Book by Andrew Forrester, Robin Pauley, and Stewart Lansley, 1985.

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• Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can arrive at any possible subjective position. This will abolish that pictorial and imaginative association pattern which has remained unsuperseded for centuries and which has been stamped upon our vision by great individual painters.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Vision, Patterns, Association

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• To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you'll have to get rid of Social Security. It means that you'll essentially have to abolish government and turn it over to the banking system to run, with an idea that the role of governments is to extract income from the economy to pay to the bondholders and the banks.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Mean, Loss

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You can see our media appearances as well as connect to Our Power to the People Agenda, Our Green New Deal, our plan to abolish student debt and our plan to actually create a whole new foreign policy based on international law and human rights.

  Jill Stein

  Media, Law, Rights

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• 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

  Wine, Men, Abuse

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• Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Science, Fool

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