Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
Edward AbbeyIn the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.
Edward AbbeyWar: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
Edward AbbeyEvery writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
Edward Abbey