Rid

Famous quotes containing the word rid:

“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)

“Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)