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Edward Abbey

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

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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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"Grown men do not need leaders."

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

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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."

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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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"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."

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