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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Anarchism
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Democracy

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All governments require enemy governments.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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