Quote #41
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
More from Edward Abbey
- Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
- Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the ma…
- Freedom begins between the ears.
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- The 'Terror' of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
- No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
- Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.