Edward Abbey Revolution Quotations

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

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.