Abolished Quotes
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Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.
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A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
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The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.
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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
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The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.
