Edward Abbey Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.

  Edward Abbey

  Sex, Children, Sorry

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

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

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Purpose, Want

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

• 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

  Government, Political, Purpose

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

• The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

  Edward Abbey

  Punishment, Inspire, Purpose

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

• What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Tree, Giants

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

• Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Passion, Foundation

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