Edward Abbey Quotes

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

Edward Abbey

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Edward Abbey

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Edward Abbey

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Edward Abbey