American - Author | January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Edward Abbey
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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