Edward Abbey Quotes About Army

Quotes about: Army

• War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Army, Government

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

• I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

  Edward Abbey

  Hero, Army, Men

• All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

  Edward Abbey

  Army, Hierarchy, Wells

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

• A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

  Edward Abbey

  Army, Journey, Two

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