Edward Abbey

• Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
• Grown men do not need leaders.
• Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
• Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
• If the end does not justify the means - what can?
• Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
•  There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
• You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
•  Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
• A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
• The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
• Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.