For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are… — Derrick Jensen Lies Copy Share Image
The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is… — Derrick Jensen Education Copy Share Image
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life.… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a… — Derrick Jensen Being Copy Share Image
When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I… — Derrick Jensen Education Copy Share Image
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance,… — Derrick Jensen Action Copy Share Image
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary… — Derrick Jensen Choices Copy Share Image
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement -… — Derrick Jensen Behavior Copy Share Image
You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Isolation leads to psychopathology. Isolated from the rest of nature, isolated from each other by walls of fear, isolated from our own… — Derrick Jensen Fear Copy Share Image
But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come… — Derrick Jensen Arrogant Copy Share Image
“Does anyone beside me experience a deep sorrow that someone called a "Hero for the Planet" and a "star of the sustainability… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“No anesthetic was necessary for the people who ordered the killings; they had the misleading language of technocratic bureaucracy to distance them… — Derrick Jensen Beauty Copy Share Image
“So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and the… — Derrick Jensen Anti-civ Copy Share Image
“We were not meant for this. We were meant to live and love and play and work and even hate more simply… — Derrick Jensen Live and love Copy Share Image
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding… — Derrick Jensen Authority Copy Share Image
“The anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday looked at data from over a hundred cultures as to the prevalence of rape, and divided them… — Derrick Jensen Creation myths Copy Share Image
“I am in this same river. I can't much help it. I admit it: I'm racist. The other night I saw a… — Derrick Jensen Best friend Copy Share Image
“I said that I feel bad whenever I drive, because I’m adding to global warming. The Maori nodded agreement. So did Jeannette.… — Derrick Jensen Factory farming Copy Share Image
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. — Derrick Jensen Cry Copy Share Image
If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is… — Derrick Jensen Existence Copy Share Image
I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so… — Derrick Jensen Alive Copy Share Image
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is… — Derrick Jensen Anarchism Copy Share Image
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. — Derrick Jensen Books Copy Share Image
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly. — Derrick Jensen Culture Copy Share Image
Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even… — Derrick Jensen Differences Copy Share Image
The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it… — Derrick Jensen Abstract Copy Share Image
“It’s unavoidable: so long as we value money more highly than living beings and more highly than relationships, we will continue to… — Derrick Jensen Monetary value Copy Share Image
“It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the… — Derrick Jensen Challenge-and-attitude Copy Share Image
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures,… — Derrick Jensen Assault Copy Share Image
“It’s never possible to know for certain the “true” source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection)… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
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