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Quotes About Abolished

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
~ Benjamin Tucker
U]npleasant truths are hastily and nonchalantly brushed aside, as if by so doing the truth could be abolished.
~ Adolf Hitler
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
~ Angela Davis
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
~ James K. Polk
It is always reasonably easy to get conversation going in a pub, and it will be a black day for detectives when beer is abolished. After
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
~ Walter Duranty
All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions. The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favor of bourgeois property.
~ Karl Marx
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.
~ William Faulkner
Once the monarchy was abolished, a decree was passed that there would be no more kings in Rome.
~ Edward Gibbon
this means—in the Apocalypse just as in the prophetic visions upon which it draws (Isa. 65:17–25, 66:22)—that God will have redeemed and transformed the creation, not abolished it.
~ Richard B. Hays
All religious prisoners were to be released, heresy trials were suspended, and the death penalty for heresy was abolished. The Protestants, whom Sylvie now heard referred to by their new nickname of Huguenots, were rejoicing.
~ Ken Follett
I'm sure, but at least people here know what's sinful and what's not. The other thing is that I've seen no slaves anywhere in Normandy." "There's a slave market in Rouen, but the buyers are foreigners. Slavery has been almost completely abolished here. Our clergy condemn it
~ Ken Follett
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.
~ George Grey
I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.
~ Charles Koch
Britain, of course, had only a dubious right to the high moral view of slavery. British ships had long dominated the slave trade, and only in 1838 had slavery formally been abolished in the British Empire.
~ Adam Hochschild
God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, or science has been surmounted and abolished; and the same thing has happened in philosophy and religion (Feuerbach!). For the sake of intellectual honesty, that working hypothesis should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
AMÉDÉE: Slavery has been abolished, my love . . . MADELEINE: I'm not your love . . . AMÉDÉE: Slaves belong to the past . . . MADELEINE: Well, I'm a modern slave, then!
~ Eugene Ionesco
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
~ Angela Davis
What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
~ Simon Hoggart
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
~ Thomas Paine
Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
~ Joseph Stalin
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste and money-lenders were abolished, you'd collapse.
~ Aldous Huxley
Not 'I am finished,' but 'it is finished.' His supreme sacrifice was over. His mighty work of redemption was done. He came to earth to do the will of His Father, and He had accomplished that...By His death Jesus abolished the ceremonial Law and all its obligations, stamping them *paid in full*.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
From this, however, it does not follow that the ethical is to be abolished, but it acquires an entirely different expression, the paradoxical expression – that, for example, love to God may cause the knight of faith to give his love to his neighbor the opposite expression to that which, ethically speaking, is required by duty. If
~ Soren Kierkegaard