If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you’re not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you’re going to take the resource. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you’re going to exploit the world. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it’s very difficult physically for us to live outside of it. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
People say ‘what do you mean’ when you talk about ‘bringing down civilization.’ What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That’s what I really mean. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
I get asked quite often if I’m an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that’s fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn’t really matter to me if they are Left or Right. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that’s based on the use of non-renewable resources won’t last. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
Maud Gonne was – excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl – in other words, only four human generations ago – there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home. Derrick Jensen Read Quote
