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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 17

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We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

Machines, Saving, More Time

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Mean, Men, Ends

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

Men, Circles, Wish

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

Men, Space, Phrases

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.55, University of Arizona Press

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

America, People, Democracy

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Government, Liberty, Form

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

Years, Anarchy, Thousand

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

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Human Nature, Humans, Human Beings

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Positive, Years, Atheism

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Symphony, Musical, Trying

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

Hawks, Cry, Beaks

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

Men, Jail, Giving

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Wilderness, Outlaw, Ifs

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

Girl, Horse, Boys

Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

Men, Fire, Self

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

World, Irrational, Knows

Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.53, Macmillan

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

Book, Facts, My Own

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

Wall, Writing, Two

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

Artist, Technique, Truth Is

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

Men, Sheep, Brave

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

Past, Clouds, Watches

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.40, University of Arizona Press

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

Reading, Men, Biographies

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

Clouds, Air, Weather

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.107, University of Arizona Press

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

Writing, Trying, May

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Book, Silence, Paper

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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