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Best Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
- When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
- Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
- A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
- Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can…
- The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
- Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
- Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the…
- In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
- I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a…
- Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We…
- The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
- There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with…
- Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
- Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
- The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even…
- When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade…
- When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
- My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
- In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.
- My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
- Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging…
- The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.
- Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern…
- I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle