Abolish Quotes - Page 4

• But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Russia, Government

  "Christendom in Dublin". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy., 1932.

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• Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  "Planned Chaos". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1947.

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• To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Weather, Wish

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.89, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memories, Book, Reading

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Memories, Intellectual

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• If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws [it] open.

  Eric Foner

  War, Slave Labor, Race

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Income, Poverty, Prove

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “"All Labor Has Dignity"”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Retirement, Children, Hollywood

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• Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

  Ayn Rand

  Equality, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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• The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

  Jan Timman

  Time, Moving, Half

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• 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

  Equality, League, Giving

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• The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many agencies perform functions that are not Federal responsibility. The founders delegated to the Government only strictly defined authority in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. Search the entire Constitution, and you will find no authorization for Congress to subsidize the arts, finance and regulate education or invest tax revenues in energy research.

  David Boaz

  Art, Real, Responsibility

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• You can see our media appearances as well as connect to Our Power to the People Agenda, Our Green New Deal, our plan to abolish student debt and our plan to actually create a whole new foreign policy based on international law and human rights.

  Jill Stein

  Media, Law, Rights

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

  Albert Camus

  God, Should Have, Ifs

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• A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mind, Suffering, Scandal

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• Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

  Mark Twain

  Men, Might, Uncertain

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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• If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

  Octavio Paz

  Suicide, Spiritual, Commit

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• I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Thinking, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, School, Government

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• Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
  Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Divorce, Police, Wicked

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.1119, Oxford University Press

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• The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

  Lord Acton

  Race, Law, Class

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Quality, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.233

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• A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Desire, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Character, Leaving

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.10033, Delphi Classics

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• The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a fixed exchange rate, abolish your central bank and adopt a currency board instead. Either extreme; a fixed exchange rate through a currency board, but no central bank, or a central bank plus truly floating exchange rates; either of those is a tenable arrangement. But a pegged exchange rate with a central bank is a recipe for trouble.

  Milton Friedman

  Recipes, Want, Asia

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