Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America. — 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
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good… — 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
