Edward Abbey quotes - page 2

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. (Edward Abbey)
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. View quote
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Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. View quote
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‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey. View quote
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. View quote
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere. View quote
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time. View quote
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper. View quote
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know. View quote
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Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.' View quote
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself. (Edward Abbey)
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative. View quote
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God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore. View quote
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. View quote
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An empty man is full of himself. View quote
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time. View quote
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth. View quote
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. View quote
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. View quote
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. View quote
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now. (Edward Abbey)
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. View quote
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed. View quote
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly. View quote
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I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. View quote
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