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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
Edward Abbey
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
Edward Abbey
In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
Edward Abbey
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
Edward Abbey
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
Edward Abbey
Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
Edward Abbey
You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
Edward Abbey
Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
Edward Abbey
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
Edward Abbey
There are no vacant lots in nature.
Edward Abbey
The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
Edward Abbey
I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
Edward Abbey
I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
Edward Abbey
Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
Edward Abbey
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
Edward Abbey
The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
Edward Abbey
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
Edward Abbey
Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
Edward Abbey
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.
Edward Abbey
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
Edward Abbey
