"The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.












The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

More Edward Abbey quotes
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"A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.
"I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on mo...
"Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, w...
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.