Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbeywas an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 January 1927
CountryUnited States of America
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How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
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In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
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One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.
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Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.
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There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.