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Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 7

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In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

Government, Two, Differences

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

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

Teacher, Littles, Administrators

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.

Heart, Men, Dust

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Children, Ordinary, Half

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

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Sheep, Taxation, Taxes

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

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Fate, Men, Age

Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.341, Big Earth Publishing

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

Death, Believe, Men

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

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Journey, Snakes, Hiking

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

Country, America, Slavery

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

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

Saving, Cows, Elk

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

Views, People, Important

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

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

Ambition, Someday, Enough

Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.63, Holt Paperbacks

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Knowing, Culture, Modern

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

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Real, Purpose, Want

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

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

Brother, Men, Secret

Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.109, Macmillan

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Dream, Atheist, Imagination

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

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

War, Government, Insanity

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

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Humans

Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.28, Macmillan

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

Oxygen, Rebel, Looks

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

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

Beautiful, Rebel, Defiance

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

Not all questions can be answered.

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

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

Doe, Might

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

We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.

Dream, Agony, Feet

"The Monkey Wrench Gang". Book by Edward Abbey (p. 312), August 1, 1975.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Wise, Men, Astrology

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

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

Wish

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

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