Edward Abbey Quotes

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying — a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

Epitaphs for a gravestone: ‘Please: no hooliganism’; or ‘Es prohibe se hace agua aqui’; or ‘No comment’.

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I’ve always found the second approach the more pleasing.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

It’s true: Every time you kill an elk, you’re saving some cow’s life.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

God is love? Not bloody likely.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology — the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways