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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands o

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. – Edward Abbey

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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men. – Edward Abbey

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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

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The mob has many heads but no brains. – English Proverb

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