#abolish

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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

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


Herbert Marcuse


#does #election #free #free election #masters

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.


Hjalmar Branting


#actual #among #cannot #concerned #course

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


#advantage #after #child #child labor #despite

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.


Eugene Ionesco


#abolish #absolute #been #condition #death

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.


L. Neil Smith


#back #boom #capable #capacity #cripple

When you try to persistently abolish hatred, at that very moment...you lose focus on love.


Toba Beta


#focus #hatred #love #love

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

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