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• If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

  William J. Clinton

  Distance, Technology, India

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

  Karl Marx

  Past, Government, Historical

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.68, Haymarket Books

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• Mr. Speaker, 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. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... 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, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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• For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Issues, Rights

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nukes

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself — and the people who are asking for government interference — find worse than the conditions they wish to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, People

  "Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow".

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• They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

  Thomas Browne

  Vices, Virtue, Endeavour

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.119

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• I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Gay

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• To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Art, Mean, Creative Nonfiction

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• In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

  Alexander Dale Oen

  Swimming, Dancer, Ballet

  "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak out for an end to the institution of militarism and war and for institutions built on international law and human rights and nonviolent conflict resolution.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Rights, Speaks Out

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Mean, Class

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Want, Size

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.

  Karl Hess

  Responsibility, Class, Two

  Karl Hess (1975). “Dear America”, William Morrow &Company

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• Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

  Henry George

  Land, Taxation, Values

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.288, Cosimo, Inc.

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• War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Mean, Ideas

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• A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Majority Rule, Democracy, Minorities

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.143, Penn State Press

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• we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Power, Would Be, Needs

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• music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

  Irene Nemirovsky

  Music, Two, Differences

  Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada

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• Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, School, Thinking

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son" by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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• This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Block, Thinking, Concern For Others

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

  John Boorman

  House, Needs, Royal

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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• Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Wish, Doe

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• War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

  Heinrich von Treitschke

  War, Men, Wish

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