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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 My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel

 My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel

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

 One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

 One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

 Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

 Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell

 Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

 Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

 Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

 Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country

 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.

 Taxation: how the sheep are shorn

 That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

 The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.


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