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True Quotes by Edward Abbey
- A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
- When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect…
- Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
- This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of…
- Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
- A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.
- It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one…
- Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.
- 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…
- The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
- A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
- It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
- It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.
- I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?
- Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I…
- All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary…
- I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
- Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
- Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
- Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my…
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