Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
Edward AbbeyA crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.
Edward AbbeyTags: society overpopulation
What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real world which makes both possible, and the new technocratic industrial state which threatens the existence of all three. Life and death, that's my subject, and always has been - if the reader will look beyond the assumptions of lazy critics and actually read what I have written. Which also means, quite often, reading between the lines: I am a comic writer and the generation of laughter is my aim.
Edward AbbeyTags: writing human-society
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
Edward AbbeyTags: communication internet
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
Edward AbbeyTags: life
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.
Edward AbbeyTags: love
There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave.
Edward AbbeyCertainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in the most honest way that I can.
Edward AbbeyTags: writing
Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and when necessary fight back. Get down off the fence and lend a hand, grab a-hold, be a citizen - not a subject.
Edward AbbeyTags: power society corruption ninety-nine-percent ows
And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.
Edward AbbeyTags: politics corruption greed corporations ows
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