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Quotes from The Story of B — Daniel Quinn

1935–2018 United States

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Any culture will become an obscenity when blown up into a universal world culture to which all must belong.

The Story of B (1996)

When all else fails, it will be objected that the people of the world will not tolerate a limit on food. That may be, but it has nothing to do with the facts presented here.

The Story of B (1996)

You don’t have to understand what you see but you must at least make an effort to see what you see.

The Story of B (1996)

The important thing to note is that the vision grew out of the lifestyle, the lifestyle didn’t grow out of the vision.

The Story of B (1996)

Anyone who thinks the Church is open to new ideas is living in a dreamworld.

The Story of B (1996)

What appears to be kind and is meant to be kind can be the reverse of kind.

The Story of B (1996)

Without a standing army, a king is just a windbag in fancy clothes.

The Story of B (1996)

Programs are initiated in order to counter or defeat vision.

The Story of B (1996)

“Always has been my guiding principle for forty years to say ‘Never trust a Christian.’ Not once has ever Christian given me reason to change.”

The Story of B (1996)

These caves aren’t art galleries or shamanistic temples, they’re schools of the hunting arts—the equivalent of one of our museums of science and industry.

The Story of B (1996)

Crimes are what the state defines as crimes.

The Story of B (1996)

The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by new minds—with no programs.

The Story of B (1996)

Pursuing an evolutionarily unstable strategy doesn’t eliminate you instantly, Jared, it eliminates you eventually.

The Story of B (1996)

Atterley’s message seemed difficult to summarize and was typically characterized as “mind-boggling” by those who were favorably impressed and as “incomprehensible” by those who weren’t.

The Story of B (1996)

All paths lie together like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle’s or the mouse’s. All are held together.

The Story of B (1996)

It can’t possibly be said too often that there is no one right way for people to live; that’s only the delusion of the most murderous and destructive culture that history has ever produced.

The Story of B (1996)

So, this is the Taker vision: The world was made for Man, and Man was made to conquer and rule it.

The Story of B (1996)

The world must live, the world must live! We are only one species among billions. The gods don’t love us more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

The Story of B (1996)

I closed my eyes and found the interior rooms of my head quite thoroughly deserted.

The Story of B (1996)

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by people with the old vision and new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with a new vision and no programs.

The Story of B (1996)

Attribution

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