We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of vi…

Edward Abbey
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We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.25, RosettaBooks
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The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.12, RosettaBooks
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind? ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Cryin … ▶
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defens … ▶
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism. ✨ Edward Abbey (1996). The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader, p.151, Macmill … ▶

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.25, RosettaBooks

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