Men Love Their Ideas More Than Their Lives. And The More Preposterous The Idea, The More Eager They Are To Die For It.

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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.
-- Edward Abbey

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
-- Edward Abbey...
BOTH sexes kill men more than they kill women.
The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. -- Edward Abbey
The more often you stop, the more difficult it is to continue. -- Edward Abbey
A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
-- Edward Abbey...
A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
-- Edward Abbey...
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. -- Edward Abbey
Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
-- Edward Abbey...
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
-- 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.

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