#abolish

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. ↗

— Ken Livingstone

#anything #changed #voting

Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being serious?" "It does seem to have a moral under all its gaiety," assented Syme; "but may I ask you two questions? You need not fear to give me information, because, as you remember, you very wisely extorted from me a promise not to tell the police, a promise I shall certainly keep. So it is in mere curiosity that I make my queries. First of all, what is it really all about? What is it you object to? you want to abolish Government?" "To abolish God!" said Gregory, opening the eyes of a fanatic. "We do not only want to upset a few despotisms and police regulations; that sort of anarchism does exist, but it is a mere branch of the Nonconformists. We dig deeper and we blow you higher. We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice and virtue, honour and treachery, upon which mere rebels base themselves. The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights and we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong." "And Right and Left," said Syme with a simple eagerness. "I hope you will abolish them too. They are much more troublesome to me. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#anarchism #moral #right-and-wrong #anarchism

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#absolute #admire #condition #existed #god

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#danger #death #made #nothing #our

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#death #death penalty #first #first step #friends

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#actions #guidelines #i #know #laws

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#does #election #free #free election #masters

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#actual #among #cannot #concerned #course

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. ↗

— Angela Davis

#function #i #prisons #social #social function

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#become #by the time #capital #capital punishment #civilised