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— Edward Abbey"We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic."
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
— Edward Abbey
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
— William Wordsworth
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