Affirming Quote by Derrick Jensen

“There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.” quote by Derrick Jensen — Download Open image

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

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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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“In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned…

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“I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.”

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“Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstinting critic of those who run our culture and who are killing the planet. I answered immediately, “Power. If I’ve got power or authority over someone, it’s my responsibility to use that only to help them. It’s my job to…

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If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

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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…

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“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 birth, placed alone in stainless-steel chambers, and deprived of contact with other animals (“human and subhuman” alike, according to the researchers), develop irreversible mental illnesses. As one of the experts in this field, Harry Harlow, put…

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My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations…

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Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at…

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“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 subtle nor cognitively challenging), yet when faced with the emotionally daunting task of fashioning a response to these clear and clearly insoluble problems, we generally suffer a failure of nerve and imagination. Gandhi wrote a letter…

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Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

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“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 highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”…

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[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter…

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It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to…

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I think we're in a new era where the advancing tide is towards human unity, where people all around the world want to come together. The United States is in a position where it can lead the way towards that and it can do it in practical ways by affirming the power of the United Nations so that the international…

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To be honest, I am not theatre-trained and though I am confident in my skill set, to do theatre requires a better-tuned set of muscles and I sometimes defer to actors who are better trained. But at the times I do want a shot, I'll go for it, especially if the piece speaks to me and the opportunity comes up.…

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