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If there’s anyone still present whom I’ve failed to insult... I apologize (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity (Edward Abbey Quotes)
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that’s on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow’s reality (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others (Edward Abbey Quotes)
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 (Edward Abbey Quotes)
We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often (Edward Abbey Quotes)
I know my own nation best. That’s why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I’m a patriot. A dangerous man (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel (Edward Abbey Quotes)
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people (Edward Abbey Quotes)
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear (Edward Abbey Quotes)
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 (Edward Abbey Quotes)
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal (Edward Abbey Quotes)
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so (Edward Abbey Quotes)
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care (Edward Abbey Quotes)
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless (Edward Abbey Quotes)
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own (Edward Abbey Quotes)
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders (Edward Abbey Quotes)