Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 14

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• 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

  Men, World, Good Enough

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

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• Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Once Upon A Time, Good Man

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

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• Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

  Edward Abbey

  Jesus, Reason, Spartacus

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

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• We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

  Edward Abbey

  Views, Elements, Point Of View

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• 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

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• A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Genius, Duty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Savages, Madness

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

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• A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

  Edward Abbey

  Doubt, Meals, Sauce

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.140, University of Arizona Press

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• I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Lucky, Lucky Man

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

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• If the end does not justify the means - what can?

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Doe, Ends

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

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• Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

  Edward Abbey

  Mind, States, Chastity

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

  Edward Abbey

  Magic, Wonder, Evoke

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• Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Focus, Force

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

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• There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Men, Light

  "Desert Solitaire".

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• You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

  Edward Abbey

  Long, Bottom

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

  Edward Abbey

  Peace, War, Evil

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Men, Naked

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

  Edward Abbey

  Positive, Atheist, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Fate, People

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

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• There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

  Edward Abbey

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

  Edward Abbey

  Military, War, People

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Earth, Cows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.14, RosettaBooks

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• Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

  Edward Abbey

  West, Scientist, Willing

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• The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Light, Desert

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

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• A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

  Edward Abbey

  Zoos, Snakes, Earth Day

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

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