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Edward Abbey Quotations

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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
US radical environmentalist
1927 - 1989
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
US radical environmentalist
1927 - 1989
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
US radical environmentalist
1927 - 1989
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
US radical environmentalist
1927 - 1989
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
US radical environmentalist
1927 - 1989
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
US radical environmentalist
1927 - 1989
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
US radical environmentalist
1927 - 1989
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
US radical environmentalist
1927 - 1989
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
US radical environmentalist
1927 - 1989

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