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Top 100 Daniel Quinn Quotes (2024 Update)
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Daniel Quinn Quote: “We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.”

101. “We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “And if being civilized means anything at all, it should mean you’re the leaders of the club, not its only criminals and destroyers.”

102. “And if being civilized means anything at all, it should mean you’re the leaders of the club, not its only criminals and destroyers.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “No, the founders of our culture didn’t just fall into a lifestyle of total dependence on agriculture, they had to whip themselves into it, and the whip they used was this meme: Growing all your own food is the best way to live. Nothing less could imaginably have done this amazing trick.”

103. “No, the founders of our culture didn’t just fall into a lifestyle of total dependence on agriculture, they had to whip themselves into it, and the whip they used was this meme: Growing all your own food is the best way to live. Nothing less could imaginably have done this amazing trick.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they’re reenacting this scene behind the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They’re saying to themselves, ‘Of course it’s our right to apportion life on this planet as we please. Why stop of four kids or six? We can have fifteen if we like. All we have to do is plow under another few hundres acres of rain forest – and who cares if a dozen other species disappear as a result?”

104. “Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they’re reenacting this scene behind the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They’re saying to themselves, ‘Of course it’s our right to apportion life on this planet as we please. Why stop of four kids or six? We can have fifteen if we like. All we have to do is plow under another few hundres acres of rain forest – and who cares if a dozen other species disappear as a result?”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “What he had to tell them was a story.”

105. “What he had to tell them was a story.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “What’s normal is for things to work. What’s not normal is for things to fail.”

106. “What’s normal is for things to work. What’s not normal is for things to fail.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon.”

107. “We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “Because the tribe is its members, the tribe is what its members want it to be – nothing more and nothing less.”

108. “Because the tribe is its members, the tribe is what its members want it to be – nothing more and nothing less.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “If prophecies about Christ must wait upon their fulfillment to be understood, why shouldn’t the same be true of prophecies about Antichrist? In other words, we can’t really know what John was talking about until it actually happens, so the Antichrist is almost certain to be different from whatever we imagine him to be.”

109. “If prophecies about Christ must wait upon their fulfillment to be understood, why shouldn’t the same be true of prophecies about Antichrist? In other words, we can’t really know what John was talking about until it actually happens, so the Antichrist is almost certain to be different from whatever we imagine him to be.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “We’re on our way to discovering what lies at the very root of your fear and loathing of the Leaver life. We’re on our way to discovering why you feel you must carry the revolution forward even if it destroys you and the entire world. We’re on our way to discovering what your revolution was a revolution against.”

110. “We’re on our way to discovering what lies at the very root of your fear and loathing of the Leaver life. We’re on our way to discovering why you feel you must carry the revolution forward even if it destroys you and the entire world. We’re on our way to discovering what your revolution was a revolution against.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins has written: “The world’s most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.”

111. “Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins has written: “The world’s most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “Even the most fundamental of the fundamentalists plug their ears when Jesus starts talking about birds of the air and lilies of the field. They know damn well he’s just yarning, just making pretty speeches.”

112. “Even the most fundamental of the fundamentalists plug their ears when Jesus starts talking about birds of the air and lilies of the field. They know damn well he’s just yarning, just making pretty speeches.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.”

113. “Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “As the Takers see it, the gods gave man the same choice they gave Achilles: a brief life of glory, or a long, uneventful life in obscurity. And the Takers chose a brief life of glory.”

114. “As the Takers see it, the gods gave man the same choice they gave Achilles: a brief life of glory, or a long, uneventful life in obscurity. And the Takers chose a brief life of glory.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “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 going to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don’t you think he’ll do the same for you?’ In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, ‘Hell no!’ Even the most dedicated monastics saw to their sowing and reaping and gathering into barns.”

115. “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 going to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don’t you think he’ll do the same for you?’ In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, ‘Hell no!’ Even the most dedicated monastics saw to their sowing and reaping and gathering into barns.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “What you do is to teach a hundred what I taught you, and inspire each of them to teach a hundred. That’s how it’s always done.”

116. “What you do is to teach a hundred what I taught you, and inspire each of them to teach a hundred. That’s how it’s always done.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “To a mind ready for mythology, he was the beginning of what is meant by godlike.”

117. “To a mind ready for mythology, he was the beginning of what is meant by godlike.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “When Jesus departed, he left no one behind who was the message.”

118. “When Jesus departed, he left no one behind who was the message.”

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Daniel Quinn Quote: “Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they’re all designed to benefit the pupil – not the world – “Ishmael.”

119. “Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they’re all designed to benefit the pupil – not the world – “Ishmael.”

— Daniel Quinn

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