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Human Quotes by Derrick Jensen
- A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.
- All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be…
- The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their…
- The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
- Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange…
- My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle