Quote

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

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
Well
Ethnic
Kind
Organized
People
Kinds
Group
Groups
Two
Cannot
Bigots
Wells
Abide

More quotes by Edward Abbey

Image
I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
Edward Abbey
Image
There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
Edward Abbey
Image
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
Edward Abbey
Image
One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
Edward Abbey
Image
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
Edward Abbey
Image
Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
Edward Abbey
Image
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
Edward Abbey
Image
The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
Edward Abbey
Image
And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
Edward Abbey
Image
Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
Edward Abbey
Image
Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
Edward Abbey
Image
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.
Edward Abbey
Image
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
Edward Abbey
Image
Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
Edward Abbey
Image
Simplicity is always a virtue.
Edward Abbey
Image
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
Image
A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
Edward Abbey
Image
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
Edward Abbey