There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. — 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
