Evil Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image ““The gross evil of our time defies all labels.”” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evil Government Society Time
“Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil; evil in the right place and time becomes good.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are...stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our internal world… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We all draw different lines. Sometimes they intersect. Sometimes they don’t. We agree on forms of evil, but judge degrees of it, saying only… — Mike Wech Copy Share Image
“The problem of evil has always seemed to me to be the price we pay for having an intelligible world, one that we can… — Leah Libresco Copy Share Image
“Evil is the worst necessity for mankind to learn and earn better life.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil!” — Amin Maalouf 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 surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
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, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
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 surly hatred of progress and development, the churlish resistance to all popular improvements? Very well, a fair question, but it’s been asked and answered a thousand times already; enough books to drive a man stark naked… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
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
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image