Best Edward Abbey Thoughts
- In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising. America
- We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. Dueling
- I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. Fastidious
- There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas. American
- Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach… Aztec
- The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak. Age
- Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto… Adepts
- Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru… Age
- In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen. Antics
- Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. Beware
- No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better. Better
- Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no… All
- Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America. America
- The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. Coerce
- All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob. All
- The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State. Awe
- The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient. Change
- Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. Any
- Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years. Anarchy
- We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal. Abnormal
- War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other. Army
- Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties. Any
- In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies… Controls
- Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such… Afterward
- All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if… All
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