Van Jones Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

  Van Jones

  Change, Profound, Understanding

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

• I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.

  Van Jones

  Hate, Views, Law

  Source: aalbc.com

• I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.

  Van Jones

  Lying, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

• God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

  Van Jones

  Community, Understanding, Next Level

  Source: pen.org

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