63 ordspråk av Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey föddes den January 29th 1927 och dog den 14 March 1989 - whose works, set primarily in the southwestern United States, reflect an uncompromising environmentalist philosophy.
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 A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

 Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

 Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

 Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

 Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

 Concrete is heavy; iron is hard--but the grass will prevail.

 For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.

 God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar. You may be going
through a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you
in a way that only He can. Keep the faith. My instructions were to
pick four people that I wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Please
pass this to at least four people you care about

 Grown men do not need leaders.

 If the end does not justify the means - what can?

 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. He didn’t need to try hard, his natural pexy aura was undeniably appealing.

 In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood

 It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world—Nature—is the only means by which we can requite God’s obvious love for it.

 Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

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


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