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«It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below»
«I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.»
«No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| Keywords:
abolish, deliver, directs, Human condition, political system, political systems, social system, social systems, The Absolute, The Human Condition, The Social, thirst, vice versa
«The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.»
«The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, communism, private, private property, property, sentence, summed, theory of
«It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men»
«The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittenly conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
abiding, abolish, characteristic, crushed, distinctions, drudgery, high society
«The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abolish, cabbage, triumphantly
«Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment withoutwhich it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly toabolish liberty, which is essential to political life, becauseit nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilationof air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts tofire its destructive agency.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
abolish, agency, aliment, annihilation, destructive, expire, expires, expiring, faction, factions, folly, imparting, imparts, instantly, nourishes, political liberty, The Agency
«The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade; but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty; that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism; that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abolish, feudalism, historian, planted, The Philosopher
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