"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst……" — Edward Abbey
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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586 Quotes by Edward Abbey
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Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of…
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise…
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies…
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Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even…
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Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out…
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people,…
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Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what…
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have…
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It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.
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Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or…
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat…
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