Edward Abbey Sheep Quotations

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.