Derrick Jensen Quotes

• Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

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  Civilization, Doe, Done

  "Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, January 4, 2011.

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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 and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

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  Book, Law, Land

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”, p.242, Seven Stories Press

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• If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

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  Cutting, Air, Water

  Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith (2013). “Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet”, p.254, PM Press

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• We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

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  Environmental, Kind, Killing

  Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.198, Seven Stories Press

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• We must learn how to think like the planet.

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  Thinking, Planets

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• A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

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  Culture, Being Human, Produce

  Derrick Jensen (2000). “A Language Older Than Words”

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• Cuarta pregunta: ¿Qué libro regalaría a todos los niños? Respuesta: No les regalaría ningún libro. Los libros son parte del problema: esta extraña creencia de que un árbol no tiene nada que decir hasta que es asesinado, su carne pulverizada, y entonces la gente (humana) mancha esta carne con palabras. Yo llevaría a los niños al exterior y los pondría cara a cara con ardillas listadas, libélulas, renacuajos, colibríes, piedras, ríos, árboles, cangrejos de río. Dicho esto, si me van a obligar a regalarles un libro, sería El viento en los sauces, que espero les recuerde que deben salir a la calle.

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  Children, Book, Wind

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• There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

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  Inspiración, Sueño, Recuerdos

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.2, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Todo lo que queremos, seamos abejas, salmones, hormigas recolectoras de basura, pinos ponderosa, coyotes, seres humanos o estrellas, es amar y ser amados, ser aceptados, apreciados y celebrados simplemente por ser quienes somos. ¿Es tan difícil?

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  Stars, Salmon, Coyotes

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• Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.

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  Fighting, Eight, Two

  Derrick Jensen (2010). “Lives Less Valuable: A Novel”, p.200, PM Press

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• To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization, taking down that power structure, does not mean the end of all social order. It should ultimately mean more justice, more local control, more democracy, and more human rights, not less.

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  Mean, Rights, Order

  "Commonly Asked Questions". deepgreenresistancenewyork.org.

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• I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

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  Thinking, Culture, Killing

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• Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.

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  Correr, Creer, Gobierno

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• I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.

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  Children, School, Years

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.102, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.

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  Beautiful, Character, Alive

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.127, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.

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  Simple, Suffering Of Others, Want

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• For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

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  Lying, Deceit, Way

  Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.404, Seven Stories Press

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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 which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back.

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  Running, Fighting, Giving

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”, p.359, Seven Stories Press

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• In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

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  Lying, Order, Way

  Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.404, Seven Stories Press

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• You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven.

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  Doe, Want, Financial

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• Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

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  Culture, Wealth, Ability

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.106, Seven Stories Press

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• Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.

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  Thinking, Views, Differences

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.39, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Cuando renuncias a la esperanza ocurre algo maravilloso, y es que te das cuenta de que, para empezar, nunca la necesitaste. Te das cuenta de que renunciar a la esperanza no te mata, ni te hace menos eficaz. De hecho, te hace más eficaz, porque dejas de depender de alguien o de algo más para resolver tus problemas -dejas de esperar que tus problemas se resuelvan de alguna manera, a través de la ayuda mágica de Dios, la Gran Madre, el Club Sierra, los valientes cuidadores de árboles, los valientes salmones o incluso la propia Tierra- y empiezas a hacer lo necesario para resolver tus problemas por ti mismo.

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  Mother, Hope, Giving Up

  "Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, 2011.

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• Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.

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  Sleep, Gun, People

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• If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

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  Limited Time, Cases, Courses

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