Men Quotes by Edward Abbey

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

— Edward Abbey

Man was created to complete the horse.

— Edward Abbey

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

— Edward Abbey

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Edward Abbey

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

— Edward Abbey

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

— Edward Abbey

Grown men do not need leaders.

— Edward Abbey

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

— Edward Abbey

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

— Edward Abbey

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

— Edward Abbey

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

— Edward Abbey

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

— Edward Abbey

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

— Edward Abbey

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

— Edward Abbey

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

— Edward Abbey

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the…

— Edward Abbey

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we…

— Edward Abbey

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough…

— Edward Abbey

WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach…

— Edward Abbey

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making…

— Edward Abbey

This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind…

— Edward Abbey

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

— Edward Abbey

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of…

— Edward Abbey

At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the…

— Edward Abbey

In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence…

— Edward Abbey

John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical…

— Edward Abbey

If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon…

— Edward Abbey

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

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For…

— Edward Abbey

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support…

— Edward Abbey

I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon…

— Edward Abbey

An empty man is full of himself.

— Edward Abbey

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

— Edward Abbey

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

— Edward Abbey

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

— Edward Abbey

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

— Edward Abbey

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

— Edward Abbey

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

— Edward Abbey

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

— Edward Abbey