Derrick Jensen Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.

  Derrick Jensen

  Self, Civilization, Ignorant

  Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.149, Seven Stories Press

• 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”

• We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

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  Soul, Culture, Sustainability

  Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.190, Seven Stories Press

• 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

• I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

  Derrick Jensen

  Disrespect, Culture, Arbitrary

  Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.19, Seven Stories Press

• I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

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  Thinking, Important, Culture

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

  Derrick Jensen

  Thinking, Culture, Killing

• We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.

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  Suicide, Children, Mean

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros”, p.1, Chelsea Green Publishing

• The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.

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  Spring, Giving, Long

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.104, Chelsea Green Publishing

• From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

  Derrick Jensen

  Civilization, Culture, Occupation

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.165, Seven Stories Press

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