4 Quotes by Edward Abbey about war

  • Author Edward Abbey
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    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.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

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