(30 quotes found)
“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
“It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below”
Alexander II of Russia
“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
“Beggars should be abolished entirely! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men”
Walter Lippmann
“I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.”
Charles Mayo
“It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities. To abolish work requires going at it from two directions, quantitative and qualitative. On the one hand, on the quantitative side, we have to cut down massively on the amount of work being done. At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it. On the other hand -- and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure -- we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes, except that they happen to yield useful end-products.”
Bob Black
“A couple of bad cases have been picked out to drum up support to abolish youth rates though it is clear the stories are exceptions, not the rule.”
David Lowe
