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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 14

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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

Men, Lucky, Lucky Man

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

Government, Political, Purpose

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

Dream, Genius, Duty

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Mean, Doe, Ends

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

Mind, States, Chastity

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Peace, War, Evil

"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

Long, Bottom

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Magic, Wonder, Evoke

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Book, Focus, Force

Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

Eye, Men, Light

"Desert Solitaire".

A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

Horse, Men, Naked

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Book, Fate, People

Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Positive, Atheist, Men

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

Military, War, People

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Real, Earth, Cows

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.14, RosettaBooks

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

West, Scientist, Willing

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

Zoos, Snakes, Earth Day

Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

There are no vacant lots in nature.

Nature, Vacant

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.146, University of Arizona Press

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Flower, Light, Desert

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

Children, Animal, Men

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

Sports, Humanity, Gentleman

It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.

Feet, Long, Support

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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 mother love or cherry pie.

Mother, Pie, Tradition

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

Country, Littles, Revolution

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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