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“We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.”

— Howard Zinn

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Howard Zinn Quote: “We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.”

“We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.”

— Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn Quote: “We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.”

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1. “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”

— Edward Abbey

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2. “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

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3. “Life is unfair. And it’s not fair that life is unfair.”

— Edward Abbey

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4. “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

— Edward Abbey

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5. “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

— Edward Abbey

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6. “Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.”

— Edward Abbey

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7. “Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”

— Edward Abbey

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8. “When the situation is hopeless, there’s nothing to worry about.”

— Edward Abbey

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9. “Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”

— Edward Abbey

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10. “The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one.”

— Edward Abbey

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11. “Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”

— Edward Abbey

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12. “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”

— Edward Abbey

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13. “God bless America. Let’s try to save some of it.”

— Edward Abbey

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14. “The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.”

— Edward Abbey

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15. “The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology – the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.”

— Edward Abbey

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16. “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.”

— Edward Abbey

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17. “If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.”

— Edward Abbey

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18. “Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?”

— Edward Abbey

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19. “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that’s only natural. It’s hard. But it’s fair.”

— Edward Abbey

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20. “A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.”

— Edward Abbey

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21. “The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.”

— Edward Abbey

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22. “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

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23. “Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.”

— Edward Abbey

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24. “The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.”

— Edward Abbey

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25. “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

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26. “Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.”

— Edward Abbey

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27. “This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.”

— Edward Abbey

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28. “Balance, that’s the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.”

— Edward Abbey

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29. “One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it’s the right word.”

— Edward Abbey

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30. “There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.”

— Edward Abbey

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31. “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

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32. “Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday’s newspaper.”

— Edward Abbey

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33. “There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”

— Edward Abbey

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34. “There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.”

— Edward Abbey

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35. “Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?”

— Edward Abbey

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36. “Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.”

— Edward Abbey

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37. “An empty man is full of himself.”

— Edward Abbey

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38. “A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.”

— Edward Abbey

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39. “Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.”

— Edward Abbey

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40. “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. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”

— Edward Abbey

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41. “You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.”

— Edward Abbey

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42. “Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”

— Edward Abbey

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43. “The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”

— Edward Abbey

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44. “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.”

— Edward Abbey

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45. “Death is every man’s final critic. To die well you must live bravely.”

— Edward Abbey

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46. “Only the half-mad are wholly alive.”

— Edward Abbey

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47. “I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.”

— Edward Abbey

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48. “Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night’s pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?”

— Edward Abbey

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49. “Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.”

— Edward Abbey

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50. “Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.”

— Edward Abbey

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