A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
