Chief of staff Quote by Edward Abbey

“Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.”

Edward Abbey

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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…

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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

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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…

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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

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“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,…

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No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as…

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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

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Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

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“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the…

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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,…

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“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave…

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