Edward Abbey Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it.
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe
fear and awe of the State.
fear and awe of the State.
And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
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.
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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.
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.
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Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.
Henry James was our master of periphrasis
the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made
unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.
unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets
the seventeen who got away.
the seventeen who got away.
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
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.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love
and most of all, an audience!
and most of all, an audience!
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.