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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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