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Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: January 29, 1927 Date of Death: March 14, 1989 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Edward Abbey Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller Helen Keller Edwin Louis Cole F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Sontag |
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Edward Abbey A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey 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. Edward Abbey Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. Edward Abbey Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. Edward Abbey 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 Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. Edward Abbey For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Edward Abbey Grown men do not need leaders. Edward Abbey Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey If the end does not justify the means - what can? Edward Abbey Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. Edward Abbey May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. Edward Abbey Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. Edward Abbey Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Edward Abbey Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. Edward Abbey Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. Edward Abbey Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. Edward Abbey That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. Edward Abbey The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. Edward Abbey The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. Edward Abbey The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. Edward Abbey There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. Edward Abbey What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. Edward Abbey When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. Edward Abbey Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. Edward Abbey You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. Edward Abbey |
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