All Derrick Jensen Quotes
- 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… Call
- Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four… Eight
- There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends. Affirming
- We must learn how to think like the planet. Inspirational
- We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as… Activist
- Civilization can never be sustainable. Civilization
- 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… Absolutely
- Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels. Desert
- For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without… Acts
- Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. Bleed
- Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations.… Activities
- 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… Believe
- Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to… Exist
- In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. Each
- To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history,… Biology
- Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy. Ability
- The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their… All
- Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. Economic
- To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we… All
- Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead,… Basic
- We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water. Deep
- 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… Arbitrary
- So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded… Difference
- Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing. From
- If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of… Alter