America My Country: last
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings. Edward Abbey
Abolish
To regard states of
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather – out of pity for the poor. Friedrich Nietzsche
When death brings at
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that \”being\” is merely a continual \”has been,\” a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself. Friedrich Nietzsche
With the unknown, one
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The \”why?\” shall, if at all possible, not give the … Read more
The slave frees himself
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general. Friedrich Engels
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, … Read more
People die, but books
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Books can not be
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing guarantees more applause
Nothing guarantees more applause and more support than the call to abolish the IRS. Frank Luntz
I know in London
I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth. Dylan Thomas