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Freedom Quotes by Edward Abbey

18 Freedom quotes by Edward Abbey

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Abbey’s words about liberty pulse with the roar of open deserts and the crack of a campfire. In these eighteen passages, his reverence for untamed spaces and his disdain for confinement shine through, capturing the raw spirit of his outdoor philosophy.

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Freedom begins between the ears.

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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

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I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

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The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community,…

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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the…

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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to…

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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the…

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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic…

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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power,…

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“What most people really desire is something quite different from industrial gimmickry- liberty, spontaneity, nakedness, mystery, wildness, wilderness.”

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A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path;…

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We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,…

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“I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine…

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“What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real…

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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

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“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,…

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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…

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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

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Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

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“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the…

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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,…

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“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…

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“Look here, I want to say, for godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those fucking sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs,…

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Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

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“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.”

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