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Quotes from Ishmael — Daniel Quinn

1935–2018 United States

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It’s pointless to argue with mythology.

Ishmael (1992)

Obviously Mother Culture must be finished off if you’re going to survive, and that’s something the people of your culture can do. She has no existence outside your minds. Once you stop listening to her, she ceases to exist.

Ishmael (1992)

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population. Obviously it has to have this result, and to predict any other is simply to indulge in biological and mathematical fantasies.

Ishmael (1992)

I no longer think of what we’re doing as a blunder. We’re not destroying the world because we’re clumsy. We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

Ishmael (1992)

Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you’re enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today—and promise population control tomorrow.

Ishmael (1992)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Quinn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.