Edward Abbey Quotes — Page 30

Author, Environmentalist

Courageous

“The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.”

Children College Spring

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Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

Grateful

“To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.”

Writing Communication Winter

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Funny

“What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.”

Differences Atheism

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Wise

“In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.”

Art Honesty

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Philosophical

“Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.”

Men Self Fire

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Angry

“The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.”

People Would Be Death Penalty

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Sad

“There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.”

Artist Decline

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Funny

“Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.”

Worst Bores

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Philosophical

“In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.”

People Church Students

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Inspired

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.”

War Struggle Survival

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Rebellious

“Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.”

Men Blood Three

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Grateful

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Quality Photography Data

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