"By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of……" — Derrick Jensen
"By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality."
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68 Quotes by Derrick Jensen
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A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of…
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I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd…
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If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole…
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Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
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