"As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases."

-- Edward Abbey

#War Quotes #Government Quotes #Insanity Quotes

“There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.”
“Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.”
“He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German.”
“Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
“You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.”
“We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.”
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”

Source : Goodbye to Berlin "Berlin Diary" (1939)
“I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.”

You may also like:

Aldo Leopold
Author
Annie Dillard
Author
Doug Peacock
Author
Henry David Thoreau
Author
John Burroughs
Essayist
John Muir
Author
Rachel Carson
Marine biologist
Wallace Stegner
Historian
Wendell Berry
Novelist