Edward Abbey Quotes

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• Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
• Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
• Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
• Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
• The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
• Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
• The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
• The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
• A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
• You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
• There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
• Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

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