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Quotes About Abolished

Information got abolished sometime in the twentieth century, can't say just when; stands to reason, that's part of the information that got abolish, abolished. Since then we've been living in a fairy-story. Got me? Everything happens by magic. Us fairies haven't a fucking notion what's going on. So how do we know if it's right or wrong? We don't even know what it is.
~ Salman Rushdie
This thing: information got abolished sometime in the twentieth century, can't say just when; stands to reason, that's part of the information that got abolsh, abolished. Since then we've been living in a fairy-story.
~ Salman Rushdie
Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.
~ Frederick Douglass
The moderns, then, after they have abolished slavery, have three prejudices to contend against, which are less easy to attack and far less easy to conquer than the mere fact of servitude: the prejudice of the master, the prejudice of the race, and the prejudice of color.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Direct taxation for Roman citizens living in Italy was abolished.
~ Anthony Everitt
Direct Grants, private schools which took huge numbers of state pupils, involved effective co-operation between state and private sectors - a thing all modern governments claim they want. So why were they abolished? And why aren't they now restored?
~ Peter Hitchens
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
~ Aleister Crowley
ANIENTED  (A'NIENTED)   adj.[anneantir, Fr.]Frustrated; brought to nothing.
~ Samuel Johnson
With respect to ceremonies, there is some appearance of a change having taken place; but it was only the use of them that was abolished, for their meaning was more fully confirmed. The coming of Christ has taken nothing away even from ceremonies, but, on the contrary, confirms them by exhibiting the truth of shadow.
~ John Calvin
The new, the unexperienced, the strange is excluded from being cause. – Thus there is sought not only some kind of explanation as cause, but a selected and preferred kind of explanation, the kind by means of which the feeling of the strange, new, unexperienced is most speedily and most frequently abolished – the most common explanations. –
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Yesterday was July the Fourth, which used to be Independence Day, before they abolished it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Hitler abolished German trade unions in one predatory, black-Nazi eagle's swoop shortly after he seized power.
~ John Hogue
Toward the end of the first century A.D., a Confucian government minister had them once more abolished, declaring, "Government sale of salt means competing with subjects for profit. These are not measures fit for wise rulers.
~ Mark Kurlansky
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
How could you have a slogan like 'freedom is slavery' when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
~ George Orwell
How could you have a slogan like freedom is slavery when the concept of freedom had been abolished
~ George Orwell
Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.
~ Gregory Corso
Who believes today that war can be abolished? No one, not even pacifists.
~ Susan Sontag
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.
~ Timothy Noah
Many modifications in private and public life took place. Privacy ceasing to exist, all new houses were glass-built, curtains abolished, walls pulled down. Police went, the entire legal structure vanished overnight a man does not litigate against himself. A parody of Parliament remained, to deal with foreign affairs, but party politics, elections, leaders in newspapers (even newspapers themselves) were scrapped.
~ Brian Wilson Aldiss
Just when people were congratulating themselves on having abolished [the belief in demons], it turned out that instead of haunting the attic or old ruins the [demons] were flitting about in the heads of apparently normal Europeans. Tyrannical, obsessive, intoxicating ideas and delusions were abroad everywhere, and people began to believe the most absurd things, just as the possessed do.
~ C.G. Jung
War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
~ Vladimir Lenin
It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865.
~ Neal Shusterman
the former King Louis XVI, who, after titles were abolished, was now simply called Louis Capet - a mocking reference to his distant ancestor Hugh Capet, who had assumed the throne in the year 987.
~ Tom Reiss