Act That Abolished Quotes

#1. Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.

Marc Chagall

#3. Anastasia, I earn roughly one hundred thousand dollars an hour. My mouth drops open. That is an obscene amount of money.

E.L. James

#4. Mrs. Leigh-Waters looked even more distressed. "Oh, Louisa, you mustn't ... "
"Speak ill of the dead?" Daniel asked, before Louisa could answer. "It's not the done thing, no, but death doesn't change what a person was in life.

Jennifer Ashley

#5. It must be remembered that the oppressed and the oppressor are bound together within the same society; they accept the same criteria, they share the same beliefs, they both alike depend on the same reality.

James Baldwin

#6. Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

Alexandre Dumas

#7. An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent but the point is that if they did train ... it would only broaden them more.

Martin Landau

#8. It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

Patrick Ness

#9. We are the measure of all things.
And the beauty of our creation, of our art
is proportional to the beauty of ourselves
of our souls.

Jonas Mekas

#10. The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine