Doe Quote by Derrick Jensen Download Open image “Love does not imply pacifism.” — Derrick Jensen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Love Pacifism
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism. — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance". — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight,… — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think these discussions with my father even gave the label of pacifist, particularly with my father, and he mentions this when he turns… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice. — Bernice King Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — 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. I learned… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.” — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstinting critic of those… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“ISOLATION DOES STRANGE THINGS to a person’s mind. This is true for any social creature, human or otherwise. Monkeys taken from their mothers at… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“So often, environmentalists and others working to slow the destruction are capable of plainly describing the problems (Who wouldn’t be? The problems are neither… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
