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All governments require enemy governments.

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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? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
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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.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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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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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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