Edward Abbey Quotes
"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Conservative, Evil, Hell, Old)
"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Teamwork, Dumb, Man, Pretty, Stupidity)
"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Coffee, Culture, First)
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Power)
"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Government, Country, Insult, Poor)
"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Flowers)
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Clouds, Leading, May, Mountains)
"Grown men do not need leaders."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Men, Leaders)
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Growth, Cancer, Ideology)
"If the end does not justify the means - what can?"
- Edward Abbey
(Related: End)
"A drink a day keeps the shrink away."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Day)
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Government, Country)
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Men, Observation)
"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Home, Men, War, Enemies, Fighting, Tragedy)
"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Love, Anger, Man, Nothing)
"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Darkness, Light, Study)
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Luxury, Necessity, Spirit, Wilderness)
"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Friend, Man)
"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Abortion, Right, State, Woman)
"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Experience, Science, Thought, Logic, Reason)
"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Missionaries)
"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Idea, Defense, Needs, Wilderness)
"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Science, Information, Today, Understanding)
"Taxation: how the sheep are shorn."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Sheep)
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Society)
"Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do."
- Edward Abbey
"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Civilization, Culture, Youth)
"What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Purpose)