Quote

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

Edward Abbey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
War
Bomb
Bombs
Nuclear
Took
Fun

More quotes by Edward Abbey

Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
Edward Abbey
Image
A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
Edward Abbey
Image
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
Edward Abbey
Image
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
Edward Abbey
Image
A pretty girl can do no wrong.
Edward Abbey
Image
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
Edward Abbey
Image
Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
Edward Abbey
Image
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
Edward Abbey
Image
The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
Edward Abbey
Image
This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
Edward Abbey
Image
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
Edward Abbey
Image
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.
Edward Abbey
Image
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
Image
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
Image
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
Edward Abbey
Image
A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
Edward Abbey
Image
It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
Edward Abbey
Image
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
Edward Abbey
Image
Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
Edward Abbey
Image
Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
Edward Abbey