"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but……" — Edward Abbey
"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
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586 Quotes by Edward Abbey
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- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
- Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
- Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of…
- One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
- Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise…
- Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies…