Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardhea

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Quotation by Edward Abbey:

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

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1927-1989 (Age at death: 62 approx.)

Thoreau of the West, and John Muir and Sophocles, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Rachel Carson, too.

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Country: United States

Type: Prose
Context: Book
Uttered: 1968

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