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It should be noted that what is crucial to our survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

— Daniel Quinn Ishmael (1992)

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In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can’t be found on a shelf in the public library.

Ishmael (1992)

The problem is that man’s conquest of the world has itself devastated the world.

Ishmael (1992)

Six billion of you wake up every morning and start devouring the world.

My Ishmael (1997)

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world’s divinely appointed ruler.

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

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