#abandoned

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cloak #enormous #having #his #hitler

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. ↗

— Martha Griffiths

#aid #alike #become #chance #fact

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#age #apt #class #class distinctions #democratic

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#about #arrive #blame #blamed #broken

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#art #because #being #comics #fine

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#during #i #my time #religion #school

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#before #found #had #means #merely

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people. ↗

— David Caruso

#about #care #guy #i #people

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#being #dislike #had #husband #i

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed