The phrase "abandon evil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing moral choices, encouraging someone to reject wrongdoing or harmful behavior.
Example: "In order to lead a fulfilling life, one must learn to abandon evil and embrace goodness."
Alternatives: "forsake wickedness" or "renounce evil".
Muhammad did not only warn those who rejected God's revelation, but also dispensed good news for those who abandoned evil, listening to the divine words and serving God.
"Nobody's Children," which offers Nazzari as the aristocratic heir to marble quarries in Cararra and Sanson as the humble daughter of a faithful night watchman, adds a castrating mother (the French actress Françoise Rosay), labor trouble, a bastard unaware of his true parentage and Sanson's decision to abandon the evils of the world and enter a nunnery.
And not even a lifetime of heroism can make up for leaving a single child alone, abandoned to evil, weeping in the dark.
Evil-skeptics believe we should abandon the concept of evil.
Some evil-skeptics argue that we should abandon the concept of evil because it lacks explanatory power and therefore is a useless concept (see, e.g., Clendinnen 1999, 79 113; Cole 2006).
Some evil-skeptics believe that we should abandon the concept of evil because it is too harmful or dangerous to use (See e.g., Cole 2006, 21; Held 2001, 107).
She suggests that people who want to abandon the concept of evil may be overwhelmed by the task of understanding and preventing evil and would rather focus on the less daunting task of questioning the motives of people who use the term (Card 2002, 27 49).
The wiser leaders lead them beyond it; the evil ones abandon them within it.
Thus, if we should abandon the concept of evil we should abandon these other moral concepts as well.
