Ed Abbey is my illegitimate father

What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.

Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat--planet Earth--could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama--soap opera with literary trimmings.

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

But don’t get discouraged comrades. Christ failed too.