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Edward Abbey Inspirational Quotes (393)

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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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