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Edward Abbey Quote: “We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world...”
Edward Abbey Quote: “America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Jesus don’t walk on water no more; his feet leak.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “There are no vacant lots in nature.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess – and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn’t work.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I’m in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I’m an animal.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare, said a wise man. If so, what happens to excellence when we eliminate the difficulty and the rarity?”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I’d sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully – as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In history-as-politics, the ‘future’ is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “If it’s knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Suicide: Don’t knock it if you ain’t tried it.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “This world may be only illusion – but it’s the only illusion we’ve got.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Great art is indefinable but that’s all right; it exists anyway.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or ‘manage’ or ‘exercise stewardship’ in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The rifle and handgun are ‘equalizers’ – the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political – especially that which pretends not to be.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. I may never in my life get to Alaska, for example, but I am grateful that it’s there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.”
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