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Them Quotes by Edward Abbey
- I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone…
- The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
- Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
- 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 American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even…
- Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get…
- Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.
- Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
- The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?
- We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and…
- What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is…
- A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take…
- Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
- I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster