Edward Paul Abbey Quotes (11 Quotes)

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

I do not believe in personal immortality it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Belief What do I believe in I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses....

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.... No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word 'reality' in quotation marks He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

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.