47 Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes & Sayings with Wallpapers & Posters

Q: What is the best Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast quote?

"The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the two as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should mean, change for the better - toward social justice, a livable and open world, equal opportunity and affirmative action for all forms of life. And I mean all forms, not merely the human. The grizzly, the wolf, the rattlesnake, the condor, the coyote, the crocodile, whatever, each and every species has as much right to be here as we do." - Edward Abbey

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"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." - Edward Abbey "A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society." - Edward Abbey "Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers." - Edward Abbey

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"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." - Edward Abbey "A house built on greed cannot long endure." - Edward Abbey "Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid." - Edward Abbey

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"I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings." - Edward Abbey

Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is the contemporary inclination to flop to the knees and crawl back into the past, to shy from what seem like impossible problems in order to bury the head, asshole aloft and twitching, in the Sands of Time. Cowardice, I calls it. Illusion-seeking. Womb-crawling. And treason. Desertion in the face of the enemy.Strong words indeed. But I've always been rather a blunt, tough, plain-spoken type . . .

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Certainly, 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.

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The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one more demand: I expect the novelist to aspire to improve the world. ... As a novelist, I want to be more than one more dog barking at the other dogs barking at me. Not out of any foolish hope that one novelist, or all virtuous novelists in chorus, can make much of a difference for good, except in the long run, but out of the need to prevent the human world from relaxing into something worse. To maintain the tension between truth and falsity, beauty and ugliness, good and evil. ... I believe the highest duty of the serious novelist is, whatever the means or technique, to be a critic of his society, to hold society to its own ideals, or if these ideals are unworthy, to suggest better ideals.

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Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope.

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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.

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But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

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The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement - mating season. And lots of fresh rabbit meat hopping about to feed the young ones with.

Nature Quotes / Desert Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Spring Quotes

In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding that humans be human -- that is, be true to the best aspects of human nature. Humans being human, therefore, cannot consider themselves morally superior to, say, bears being bear-like, eagles being eagle-like, etc.

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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.

Grief Quotes Life Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Sorrow Quotes

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

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Let's have some precision in language here: terrorism means deadly violence -- for a political and/or economical purpose -- carried out against people and other living things, and is usually conducted by governments against their own citizens (as at Kent State, or in Vietnam, or in Poland, or in most of Latin America right now), or by corporate entities such as J. Paul Getty, Exxon, Mobil Oil, etc etc., against the land and all creatures that depend upon the land for life and livelihood. A bulldozer ripping up a hillside to strip mine for coal is committing terrorism; the damnation of a flowing river followed by the drowning of Cherokee graves, of forest and farmland, is an act of terrorism.Sabotage, on the other hand, means the use of force against inanimate property, such as machinery, which is being used (e.g.) to deprive human beings of their rightful work (as in the case of Ned Ludd and his mates); sabotage (le sabot dropped in a spinning jenny) -- for whatever purpose -- has never meant and has never implied the use of violence against living creatures.

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As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Writing Quotes

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as I once did for a couple of years.

Community Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Roles Quotes Small towns Quotes

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddling our way toward frugality, simplicity, liberty, community, until some kind of sane and rational balance is achieved between our ability to love and our cockeyed ambition to conquer and dominate everything in sight. No wonder the galaxies recede from us in every direction, fleeing at velocities that approach the speed of light. They are frightened. We humans are the Terror of the Universe.

Ambition Quotes Greed Quotes / Conquer Quotes Dominate Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

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Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Books Quotes Critics Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Readers Quotes

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

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Not all questions can be answered.

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Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.

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Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Transportation Quotes Walking Quotes

I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.

Conservation Quotes Environmentalism Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Wilderness Quotes

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.

Corruption Quotes Ninety nine percent Quotes Ows Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Power Quotes Society Quotes

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.

Love Quotes / Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Environmentalism Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Stewardship Quotes

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

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Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it all of our time or effort or heart. Give what you can, but do not burn yourselves out -- or break your hearts. Let us save at least half of our lives for the enjoyment of this wonderful world which still exists. Leave your dens, abandon your cars and walk out into the great mountains, the deserts, the forests, the seashores. Those treasures still belong to all of us. Enjoy them to the full, stretch your legs, expand your lungs, enliven your hearts -- and we will outlive the greedy swine who want to destroy it all in the name of what they call GROWTH.God bless America -- let's save some of it.Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet!

Conservation Quotes Live life Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Wilderness Quotes

I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

Authority Quotes Coerce Quotes Government Quotes Military Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Respect for authority Quotes

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

Simplicity Quotes Technology Quotes / Enjoyment Quotes Living life Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

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I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Knowledge Quotes Purpose Quotes Wisdom Quotes Work Quotes / Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Honesty Quotes / Politics Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Scandal Quotes

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

Lust Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Sins Quotes Wrath Quotes

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Hope Quotes / Happy endings Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

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Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Hate Quotes / Fox news Quotes Intimidation Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Sheep mentality Quotes

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Greed Quotes / Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes

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.

Guns Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Focus Quotes / Ideas Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Working Quotes Writing Quotes

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

Overpopulation Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Society Quotes

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.

Choices Quotes / Life Quotes Nonconformity Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the two as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should mean, change for the better - toward social justice, a livable and open world, equal opportunity and affirmative action for all forms of life. And I mean all forms, not merely the human. The grizzly, the wolf, the rattlesnake, the condor, the coyote, the crocodile, whatever, each and every species has as much right to be here as we do.

Greed Quotes Growth Quotes / Equality Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Progress Quotes Social justice Quotes

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