All Edward Abbey Quotes
- When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. Banks
- One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill. Bill
- The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic. Inspirational
- The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness. Buy
- You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down. Bottom
- The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and… Agriculture
- Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and… Come Like
- Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and… Covered
- In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss. Boss
- What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. Almost Always
- Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. Capital
- The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I… Accomplish
- There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. Force
- Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper. Daily
- Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little… Administrator
- Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person. Everyone
- A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. Farmer
- Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.' Among
- Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end. End
- It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog. Dog
- A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow. Contemplating
- A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked. Horse
- A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat. Boy
- Man was created to complete the horse. Complete
- The dog's life is a good life, for a dog. Dog