Abolish Quotes

• To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.

  

  James Boswell
  • God
  • Status
  • Ages

• For as we abolish the ills and pains of the flesh we multiply those of the mind, so by the time mankind are finally delivered from disease and decay - all pasteurised, their genes counted and re-arranged, filled with new replaceable plastic organs.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Genes

• To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Security
  • Weapons

• Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

  

  William Hague
  • Promise
  • Half
  • Brown

• We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

  

  Joshua A. Norton
  • House
  • President
  • Date

• 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
  • Crime
  • Constitution

• 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
  • War
  • Must
  • Declare

• It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.

  

  Alexander III of Russia
  • Above
  • Abolish
  • Below

• 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
  • Reason
  • Opinion
  • Abolish

• I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Function
  • Prisons
  • Abolish

• Influenced by Wesley and the revival movement, Englishman William Wilberforce led the successful movement to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire.

  

  Andrew Himes
  • Successful
  • Slavery
  • Abolish

• We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a winter night, when one no longer seeks that girl, or any other, when to find her would actually scare one. For one no longer feels that one has attractions enough to please, or strength enough to love. Not, of course, that one is in the strict sense of the word impotent. And as for loving, one would love more than ever. But one feels that it is too big an undertaking for the little strength one has left.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Girl
  • Feels
  • Seeks

• She Theresa May has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.

  

  Damian Green
  • College
  • Immigration
  • Abolish

• Minnie, I want to abolish the peerage. I write radical pamphlets in secret. I am not going to shriek, 'Oh, no! A scandal!' and run away.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Write
  • Secret
  • Radical

• Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.

  

  Nikita Khrushchev
  • Individual
  • Cult
  • Abolish