“The state is not abolished, it withers away.” — Friedrich Engels Quote

“The state is not abolished, it withers away.”

“Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.”

“Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.”

“More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking.”

“I don't think fear can be abolished.”

“I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.”