“If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you'll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their marriage customs, in the holidays they observe, in their religious rituals, and so on, but they all expect the food to be under lock and key. It's all owned, and if you want some, you'll have to buy it.” PhilosophyEconomyFoodMy Ishmael Author:Daniel Quinn
“[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 it.” PhilosophyCivilizationExploitation Book:Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Source: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat." "It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated.” PhilosophyAgricultureExploitationEcology Book:Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Source: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.” PhilosophyCivilization Book:Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Source: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?” PhilosophyEconomyFoodMy Ishmael Author:Daniel Quinn
