Abolition Quotes - Page 6

• ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn.

  Kerry Thornley

  Spring, Government, Order

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• Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.

  Desmond Tutu

  Religious, People, Goal

  "It's time to rid the world of nuclear weapons" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Believe

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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• But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

  Dennis Kucinich

  America, Nuclear, Weapons

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• World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Integrity, Rights

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• Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid and the attainment of peace. It is now the turn of men to join women in their struggle for equality.

  Gertrude Mongella

  Country, Struggle, Men

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• What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Class, Historical

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.139, Wildside Press LLC

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• I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Sorrow, Today

  "Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

  Henry L. Benning

  War, Thinking, Safety

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• If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Essence, Class

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.

  Peter Drucker

  Expression, Order, Progress

  "The End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Fashion, Past, Identity

  Jean Baudrillard (1993). “Symbolic Exchange and Death”, p.88, SAGE

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• It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.

  Margaret Sanger

  Believe, Law, Practice

  Margaret Sanger (2016). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4: Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Power, Men

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• We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Want

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.63, China Books

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• It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

  Peter Medawar

  Educational, School, Thinking

  "The art of the soluble". Book by Peter Medawar, 1967.

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• The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all animal products, is more than a matter of diet or lifestyle; it is a political and moral statement in which the individual accepts the principle of abolition in her own life. Veganism is the one truly abolitionist goal that we can all achieve - and we can achieve it immediately, starting with our next meal.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Goal, Decision

  "Ethics of Animal Use". Book by Peter Sandøe and Stine B. Christiansen, 2013.

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• Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

  Gilbert Simondon

  Philosophy, Abolition Of Slavery, Recognition

  "On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects". Book by Gilbert Simondon, University of Western Ontario, June 1980.

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• With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

  Max Horkheimer

  Philosophical, Thinking, Ego

  Max Horkheimer (1970). “Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung”

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• Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

  Albert Einstein

  Slavery, May, Today

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty

  Assata Shakur

  Political, Racist, Revolutionary

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• There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the level of the human frailties of particular monarchs or presidents. No one seriously contends that the American presidency should be abolished because Bill Clinton is a self-confessed adulterer. So why should the abolition of the British monarchy be contemplated because the same is true of Prince Charles?

  David Cannadine

  Self, Important, President

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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• Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition of trial by jury, or the abridgment of any other privilege.

  Noah Webster

  Wisdom, People, Forever

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• Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

  Sean Hannity

  Couple, Children, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Abolition Of Slavery, Racism

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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