Book Quote by Derrick Jensen

“It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing the…

— Albert Camus

“There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars…

— Anne Frank

“For the earth is filled with violence, and every living thing has lost its way.”

— Naomi Alderman

“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“You’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.”

— Daniel Quinn

“We call a civilized world when all its inhabitants live in peace, harmony, and happiness, lovingly sharing all the resources of the planet. Therefore,…

— Caro Briones

“We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives.”

— Bryant McGill

“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.”

— Robert Harris

“Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We…

— Roger Kimball

“The chaos on our planet, the plundering of resources, and the division of humanity are not the true works of any kind of man.…

— Suzy Kassem

“Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human. ”

— Carolyn See