Abolish Quotes

• Where there is no law there is no freedom.

  John Locke

  Freedom, Law, Liberty

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.234

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• 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

  God, Jealous, Humanity

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  War

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (2006). “Dorset Stories”

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

  Ivan Illich

  Mean, Power Of One, Persons

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• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Suffering, Unalienable Rights

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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• If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, One Day, Earth

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• 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

  Pain, Children, Rights

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Class, Goal, Wealth

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• To abolish fear correctly is to nurture law and order.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Order, Law, Nurture

  Source: www.rfa.org

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• If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.

  David Dixon Porter

  Hope, Military, Marine

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• 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

  Country, War, Favors

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.101, Broadway Books

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

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Law, Desire

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Historical, Doe, Election

  One-Dimensional Man ch. 1 (1964)

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• 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

  Slavery, Constitution, Crime

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• Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Giving, Needs

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.536, Chicago Review Press

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• Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Poverty, Increase, Plutocracy

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• 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

  Reality, Choices, World

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.292, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Men, Sound, Mouths

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

  Norman Angell

  Men, Common, Can Do

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Cold, Storage

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.305, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.

  Patrick Henry

  Believe, Opportunity, Evil

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sea, Arrows, Mind

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.

  Sally Kohn

  Next Steps, Marriage Equality, Definitions

  "Prop 8: Let’s Get Rid of Marriage Instead!" by Sally Kohn, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

  Ray Bradbury

  Weed, Jobs, Crazy

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• In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.

  James Traficant

  Retail, Income, Irs

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