Derrick Jensen Short Quotes

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We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

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Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

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If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.

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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

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A real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

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There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

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We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

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A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

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Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

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Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

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We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

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When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

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I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

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I quit work two weeks later—having sold another eighty of my hours—and knew I could never again work a regular job.

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If we wish to stop the atrocities, we will need to understand and change the social and economic conditions that cause them.

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The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

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To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

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As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

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I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.

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If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

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So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

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From the perspective of those who are entitled, the problems begin when those they despise do not go along with—and have the power and wherewithal to not go along with—the perceived entitlement.

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I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

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