A Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian - Writer
February 1, 1884 - March 10, 1937

As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.

Ian Hacking

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

Jay Parini

Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

Dean Karnazes

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

Thomas P.M. Barnett

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Ban Ki-moon

Real change begins with ridding Washington of corruption, of which there's plenty going around.

Donald Trump

On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with.

Paul Tonko

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.

Vito Fossella

No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve the stability of the region and the security of American interests and values.

John McCain

The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.

E. L. Doctorow

I compliment President Obama on having these summits each year in Washington in which people have talked about ridding the world of materials of mass destruction.

Richard Lugar

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

Zadie Smith

As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

Helen Caldicott

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

Patrick Modiano

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.

Bertrand Piccard

Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly life. Freedom as an absolute is simply an assertion of man's "right" to be his own god; this means a radical denial of God's law-order. "Freedom" thus is another name for the claim by man to divinity and autonomy. It means that man becomes his own absolute.

R.J. Rushdoony

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