top of page
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

Standard 
 Customized
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

Exlpore more Man quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

Man,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

Man,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

Man,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk."

Explore more quotes by Edward Abbey

Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp."
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right."
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"How become a writer? Naturally."
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."
Quote_1.png
Edward Abbey
"As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty."
bottom of page