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Worthy Quotes by Edward Abbey
- I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if…
- In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people,…
- There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
- Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern…
- A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
More Worthy Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. — Luis Barragan
- There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
- We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what… — Wendell Berry
- Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control… — Ambrose Bierce
- The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but… — Allan Bloom
- Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or… — Matt Bomer
- Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped… — Julie Burchill
- I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch… — Nick Cannon
- Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. — Thomas Carlyle