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• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. -- Edward Abbey
• Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth. -- Edward Abbey
• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Money confers the power to command the labor of others.
  Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil. -- Edward Abbey...
• Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death.
  From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses....
• All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob. -- Edward Abbey
• Power means having to respond.
• Power means not having to respond.