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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Quote by Edward Abbey about human imperfections, spirit

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Quote by Edward Abbey about light, contentment

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Quote by Lord Acton about man, people, things

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Quote by Lord Acton about advertising, justice, secret, nothing, things

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Quote by Lord Acton about money, artists, things

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Quote by Lord Acton about disaster, nothing

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Quote by Lord Acton about writing

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Quote by Lord Acton about end, liberty

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Quote by Lord Acton about day, contentment, end, nothing

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Quote by Lord Acton about elections, teaching, tests, faith, public, good, good luck

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Quote by Lord Acton about eternity, fall, change, moral

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quote by Lord Acton about power, absolute

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quote by Lord Acton about corruption, power, absolute

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Quote by Lord Acton about corruption, power, man, absolute, bad luck, bad

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Quote by Lord Acton about moral, consequences, morality, wealth, society, man, rightness

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Quote by Lord Acton about danger

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Quote by Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Quote by Lord Acton about elections, democracy, force, police

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Quote by Lord Acton about evolution, ignorance, things

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Quote by Lord Acton about past, life