Abolition Quotes

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence Abolition of private property. (Karl Marx)
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. View quote
George Washington
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. View quote
Václav Havel
I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration? View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools. View quote
Peter Medawar
It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will. View quote
Margaret Sanger
I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another. (Bertrand Russell)
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. View quote
David Harvey
Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions! View quote
Peter Kropotkin
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism - the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. View quote
Che Guevara
It seems like cloud cuckoo land... If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the pound sterling – no! ... We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed on us. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood. View quote
Max Horkheimer
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior... View quote
Peter Drucker
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. View quote
Karl Marx
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. (Edward Abbey)
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The abolition of the evil is not impossible; it ought never therefore to be despaired of. Every plan should be adopted, every experiment tried, which may do something towards the ultimate object. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. View quote
James Madison