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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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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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Explore more quotes by Edward Abbey
"If the end does not justify the means - what can?"
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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."
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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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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
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"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
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"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
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"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
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