#abolish

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#achieve #aspire #denied #determined #endured

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. ↗

— Ken Livingstone

#anything #changed #voting

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status. ↗

— Abigail Biddinger

#abolish #art #biddinger #free #genre

Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being serious?" "It does seem to have a moral under all its gaiety," assented Syme; "but may I ask you two questions? You need not fear to give me information, because, as you remember, you very wisely extorted from me a promise not to tell the police, a promise I shall certainly keep. So it is in mere curiosity that I make my queries. First of all, what is it really all about? What is it you object to? you want to abolish Government?" "To abolish God!" said Gregory, opening the eyes of a fanatic. "We do not only want to upset a few despotisms and police regulations; that sort of anarchism does exist, but it is a mere branch of the Nonconformists. We dig deeper and we blow you higher. We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice and virtue, honour and treachery, upon which mere rebels base themselves. The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights and we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong." "And Right and Left," said Syme with a simple eagerness. "I hope you will abolish them too. They are much more troublesome to me. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#anarchism #moral #right-and-wrong #anarchism

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

#absolute #admire #condition #existed #god

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

— Anatoly Chubais

#bolsheviks #itself #just #killing #money

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

#abstention #bring #disappear #every #men

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

#danger #death #made #nothing #our

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

— Alphonse Karr

#death #death penalty #first #first step #friends

I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#actions #convince #could #democracy #elections