Edward Abbey Quotes About Evil
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
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The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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