“The cruel farming practice has basically been abolished.”
Wang Wei
“Beggars should be abolished entirely! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below”
Alexander II of Russia
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.”
W. H. Auden
“Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all”
Nikita Khrushchev
“The state is not abolished, it withers away”
Friedrich Engels
“A far greater factor [than abolishing poverty] is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.”
Warren E. Burger
