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“Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”

“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.”

“Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.”

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”

“The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.”

"Shadows from the Big Woods", p. 223
The Journey Home (1977)

“Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.”

Source: Confessions of a Barbarian

“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”

“A drink a day keeps the shrink away.”

“I stand for what I stand on.”

“There's beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.”

"The Ancient Dust", page 153
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)

“An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”

Edward Abbey book The Monkey Wrench Gang

Source: The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.”

“Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

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

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“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.”

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.”

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”

Edward Abbey book The Monkey Wrench Gang

page 294
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Variant: He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
Source: The Monkey Wrench Gang

“When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.”

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”