201 Quotes by Daniel Quinn

A system based on exchanging products inevitably channels wealth to a few, and no governmental change will ever be able to correct that. It isn’t a defect of the system, it’s intrinsic to the.

We’re not destroying the world because we’re clumsy. We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

You shouldn’t have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer.

Newton’s achievement was not in discovering the phenomenon of gravity, it was in formulating the phenomenon as a law.

So I looked. Silly as it sounds now, I looked. By comparison, going after the Grail would have made more sense. I won’t talk about it, it’s too embarrassing. I looked until I wised up. I stopped making a fool of myself, but something died inside of me – something that I’d always sort of liked and admired. In its place grew a scar – a tough spot but also a sore spot.

I don’t think there’s any loneliness greater than the loneliness to be found in a bad marriage. In solitary confinement, everyone knows you’re lonely and feels sorry for you. In a bad marriage loneliness is your darkest secret, one you dare not even share with your spouse.

Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You’d spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they’re designed to do, and it annoys us that they don’t do something else!

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.