"The global industrial economy is the engine for……" — Derrick Jensen
"The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment."
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68 Quotes by Derrick Jensen
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There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on…
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If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a…
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I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground,…
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A language Older Than Words
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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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By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have…
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When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no…
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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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Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it…
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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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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
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I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't…
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More Degradation Quotes
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a…
— Warren Christopher
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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the…
— Charles Dickens
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Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.
— Malcolm X
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very…
— Lucretia Mott
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We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these…
— George S. Patton
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To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding…
— George S. Patton
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable…
— Philip Zimbardo
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However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be…
— Cesar Chavez
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever…
— Joseph Conrad
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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be…
— Sigmund Freud
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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
— George Bernard Shaw
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