Contagious Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contagious Disease Government Insanity Liberty Politics Prove War
Insanity is contagious, and of this I can be sure: Sometimes you'll find your freedom when you stop searching for a cure. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the… — Frank Bettger Copy Share Image
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time,… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“It was nice to meet you,” I say loudly in a more formal tone than I used when we were alone. And then I… — Amy Christine Parker Copy Share Image
“And being at school was awful in the beginning. Every new class I had was like a new chance for kids to “not stare”… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
“Remember: Research shows that emotions are contagious. How will you infect others at work today?” — Alexander Kjerulf Copy Share Image
“Move aside Ebola, smallpox, and AIDS; make room for narcolepsy. I would become shunned and avoided. Perhaps the people at the casino thought that… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?' — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
