Brian

“Indians only needed so many implements and decorations. If a tribe drove three hundred buffalo over a cliff, they wouldn’t feel obligated to make twenty-four hundred buffalo-hoof spoons and six hundred buffalo-horn charcoal carriers. Rather, they might just take the meat and hides from the best-looking female buffalo, those that weren’t too smashed up or buried under other buffalo. That might be all they touched. After all, their time and energy had value, just as ours does.”
― Steven Rinella, American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

“A truly International Monetary System would be one where the whole world possessed a homogeneous currency such as obtains within separate countries and where its flow between regions was left to be determined by the results of the action of all individuals.5”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

“Every schoolboy knows that the Indians used every part of the buffalo, which is true. But they did not use every part of every buffalo.”
― Steven Rinella, American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

“It is not in a woman's best interest to rule man. I don't believe any good women would want that position." - Ayn Rand”
― Brooke Bida