Edward Abbey Quotes

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
Edward Abbey

Love, Anger, Nothing

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

Nature, Amazing, May

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

Government, Country, Against

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

Society, Once, While

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Edward Abbey

Alone, Stupidity, Real

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey

Power, Best, Dangerous

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey

Growth, Cancer, Ideology

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

Woman, She, State

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

Men, Wise, Enough

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
Edward Abbey

Enough, Dangerous, Weren

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

Human, Spirit, Necessity

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

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Edward Abbey

Idea, Needs, Defense

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Edward Abbey

Away, Drink, Shrink

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
Edward Abbey

Sheep, Taxation

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Edward Abbey

Government, Country, Poor

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

Study, Light, Darkness

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Edward Abbey

Failure, Belief, Reflects

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
Edward Abbey

Evil, Hell, Old

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Edward Abbey

Coffee, Often, Culture

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

Him, Down, Youth

If the end does not justify the means - what can?
Edward Abbey

End, Means, Justify

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Edward Abbey

Experience, Science, Thought

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
Edward Abbey

Best, Friend, Problem

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

Nature, Long, Black

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 29, 1927

Died: March 14, 1989

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