All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

- Edward Abbey

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.

- Edward Abbey

Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If yo…

- Edward Abbey

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to ai…

- Edward Abbey

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

- Edward Abbey

Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your f…

- Edward Abbey

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

- Edward Abbey

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

- Edward Abbey

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

- Edward Abbey