Derrick Jensen Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• 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.

  Derrick Jensen

  Civilization, Doe, Done

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

• Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come to us as obvious and arrogant[...]. Often it comes to us with the simple plea to be reasonable.

  Derrick Jensen

  Simple, Evil, Black

• 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.

  Derrick Jensen

  Sex, Confused, Believe

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