201 Quotes by Daniel Quinn

This is of course a startling idea, the idea that laws could be anything but invented – but that’s exactly the point to be made about tribal laws. Tribal laws are never invented laws, they’re always received laws.

Children don’t need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

We can argue about it for a thousand years, but there’s never going to be an argument powerful enough to end the argument, because every argument has a counterargument.

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.

If you alone found out what the lie was, then you’re probably right – it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.

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

Don’t try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

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.

We’re straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.