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Nothing Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
- Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the…
- Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.
- The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
- Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
- It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I…
- I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.
- There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
- All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
- Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
- The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for…
- 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 mother…
- Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
- Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but…
- Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence…
- Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many…
- The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters,…
- Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
- Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
- 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…
- Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
- Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,…
- My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and…
- When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
- I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware…
More Nothing Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — 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
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong