You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. ... You are captives-and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?-your captivity and the captivity of the world. (Daniel Quinn)

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. ... You are captives-and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?-your captivity and the captivity of the world.

Daniel Quinn

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