“The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world— any place… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“culture. A culture is a people enacting a story.” “A people enacting a story. And a story again is …?” “A scenario… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“No undesirable behavior has ever been eliminated by passing a law against it.” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
![“[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a…” quote by Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c4/daniel-quinn-1786_capable_i-n-africa-i-was-a-member-of-a-family-of_496819.jpg)
![“The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison. [...] Naturally a well-run prison must have a prison industry. I'm sure you see why." "Well... it helps to keep the inmates busy, I suppose…” quote by Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aaf/daniel-quinn-1786_culture_the-world-of-the-takers-is-one-vast-pris_656950.jpg)
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