Edward Abbey
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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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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
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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.