“This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to… — daniel quinn Copy Share Image
“They've been given an explanation of how things came to be this way, and this stills their alarm. This explanation covers everything,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a story of conquest and rule. Enacting it… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us,… — daniel quinn Copy Share
The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
“Pharaohs It took Khufu twenty-three years to build his Great Pyramid at Giza, where some eleven hundred stone blocks, each weighing about two and… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
“Many peoples practiced agriculture, but they were never obsessed by the delusion that what they were doing was *right*, that everyone in the entire… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
“No undesirable behavior has ever been eliminated by passing a law against it.” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
“How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
“Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
“Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done--almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share
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