Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Topic: Darkness
Author: Edward Abbey
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Topic: Freedom
Author: Edward Abbey
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Topic: Growth
Author: Edward Abbey
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
Topic: Killing
Author: Edward Abbey
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Topic: Nature
Author: Edward Abbey
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Topic: Patriotism
Author: Edward Abbey
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
Topic: Politics
Author: Edward Abbey
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
Topic: The sexes
Author: Edward Abbey
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Topic: Tyranny
Author: Edward Abbey
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Topic: Wit
Author: Edward Abbey
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