It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below. (Quote by - Alexander II of Russia)

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. (Quote by - Mao Zedong)

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished. (Quote by - Mikhail Bakunin)

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. (Quote by - George Grey)

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. (Quote by - Warren E. Burger)

If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. (Quote by - Anatole France)

Beggars should be abolished entirely! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

New Jersey was the last (northern) state to abolish slavery, and even if we are the last state to abolish abortion, it will happen eventually. (Quote by - Marie Tasy)

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. (Quote by - F E Smith)

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did. (Quote by - Paul Nitze)

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

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 cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. (Quote by - Thomas Clarkson)

We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period. (Quote by - Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

If all non-legalized organizations are to be abolished, that should imply that the National Unification Council should be abolished too. (Quote by - Joseph Wu)

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished. (Quote by - Benjamin Tucker)

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. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)