There can be no real peace when living with someone who has already declared war, no peace but capitulation. And even that, as we see around us, doesn't lead to further peace but to further degradation and exploitation. We're responsible for not only what we do but for what is in our power to stop. Before we can speak of peace, we have to speak honestly of stopping, by any and all means possible, those who have declared war on the world and on us. Those who destroy won't stop because we ask nicely. There is only one language that they understand, and everyone here knows what it is. Yet we don't speak of it openly.


A Language Older Than Words (2000)

Derrick Jensen Quotes

There can be no real peace when living with someone who has already declared war, no peace but capitulation. And even that, as we see around us,...

There can be no real peace when living with someone who has already declared war, no peace but capitulation. And even that, as we see around us,...

There can be no real peace when living with someone who has already declared war, no peace but capitulation. And even that, as we see around us,...

There can be no real peace when living with someone who has already declared war, no peace but capitulation. And even that, as we see around us,...