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Top 500 Edward Abbey Quotes (2025 Update)
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Edward Abbey Quote: “The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Not all questions can be answered.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Life imitates art – but badly.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe – fear and awe of the State.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town’s in trouble.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I know my own nation best. That’s why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I’m a patriot. A dangerous man.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Every moment is precious. And precarious.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Without courage, all other virtues are useless.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I’m a humanist; I’d rather kill a man than a snake.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “God is a sound people make when they’re too tired to think anymore.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “What’s the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “There’s nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “No man is wise enough to be another man’s master. Each man’s as good as the next – if not a damn sight better.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Wilderness begins in the human mind.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The hawk’s cry is as sharp as its beak.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be – will be – a human zoo. A high-tech slum.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government – and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.”
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