Ishmael: A Novel (Ishmael Series Book 1)

The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.”

Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.”

“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of total global catastrophe.

“You’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.”

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.”