{"author":"Daniel Quinn","author_id":"Daniel+Quinn","total_quotes":48,"quotes":[{"text":"I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["drinking"],"id":23286,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"},{"text":"The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["civilization","philosophy"],"id":24221,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"},{"text":"The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["ambiguity","words"],"id":42381,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"},{"text":"This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["civilization","ecology","exploitation","philosophy"],"id":48158,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"},{"text":"If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["civilization","exploitation","philosophy"],"id":58155,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"},{"text":"Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East, he'd certainly experience many new things, but he'd find first, that the food is under lock and key and second, that humans are considered to be a miserable, destructive, greedy lot, just as they are in the West.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["buddhism","economy","my-ishmael","philosophy-of-life"],"id":68368,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"},{"text":"Every year, without fail, we outlaw more things, catch more people doing them, and put more of them in jail. The outlawed behavior never goes away, because, directly or indirectly, it's supported by the strong, invisible, unrelenting force called vision. This explains why police officers are much more likely to take up crime than criminals are to take up law enforcement. It's called 'going with the flow.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["crime","vision"],"id":93357,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["economy","food","my-ishmael","philosophy"],"id":101703,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"},{"text":"The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["change","growth","journey","learning"],"id":103839,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"},{"text":"You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer.","author":"Daniel Quinn","tags":["deep"],"id":120002,"author_id":"Daniel+Quinn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}