Derrick Jensen citations

Derrick Jensen est un écrivain américain, partisan du sabotage environnemental, vivant en Californie.

Il a publié plusieurs livres défiant la société contemporaine et les valeurs culturelles parmi lesquels The Culture of Make Believe , et plusieurs essais. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. décembre 1960
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Derrick Jensen Citations

Derrick Jensen: Citations en anglais

“I quit work two weeks later--having sold another eighty of my hours--and knew I could never again work a regular job.”

Derrick Jensen livre A Language Older Than Words

Source: A Language Older Than Words (2000), p. 110-111

“I am in this same river. I can't much help it. I admit it: I'm racist. The other night I saw a group (or maybe a pack?) or white teenagers standing in a vacant lot, clustered around a 4x4, and I crossed the street to avoid them; had they been black, I probably would have taken another street entirely. And I'm misogynistic. I admit that, too. I'm a shitty cook, and a worse house cleaner, probably in great measure because I've internalized the notion that these are woman's work. Of course, I never admit that's why I don't do them: I always say I just don't much enjoy those activities (which is true enough; and it's true enough also that many women don't enjoy them either), and in any case, I've got better things to do, like write books and teach classes where I feel morally superior to pimps. And naturally I value money over life. Why else would I own a computer with a hard drive put together in Thailand by women dying of job-induced cancer? Why else would I own shirts made in a sweatshop in Bangladesh, and shoes put together in Mexico? The truth is that, although many of my best friends are people of color (as the cliche goes), and other of my best friends are women, I am part of this river: I benefit from the exploitation of others, and I do not much want to sacrifice this privilege. I am, after all, civilized, and have gained a taste for "comforts and elegancies" which can be gained only through the coercion of slavery. The truth is that like most others who benefit from this deep and broad river, I would probably rather die (and maybe even kill, or better, have someone kill for me) than trade places with the men, women, and children who made my computer, my shirt, my shoes.”

Derrick Jensen livre The Culture of Make Believe

Source: The Culture of Make Believe (2003), p. 69

“If we wish to stop the atrocities, we will need to understand and change the social and economic conditions that cause them.”

Derrick Jensen livre The Culture of Make Believe

Source: The Culture of Make Believe (2003), p. XII

“Love does not imply pacifism.”

Derrick Jensen livre Endgame

Vol. 1, pg. XI
Endgame (2006)

“If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.”

Derrick Jensen livre The Culture of Make Believe

Source: The Culture of Make Believe (2003), p. 19

“A very poor kid came up to me after a talk and said 'I want to go blow up a factory.' I asked how old he was and he said 17. I said 'have you ever had sex?' He said 'no.' I said 'just remember if you get caught you aren't going to have sex for twenty years at least.'”

That's not saying that one person having sex is worth the salmon. I'm not saying it's a reason not to act, I'm saying don't be stupid.

Interview with The A Word Magazine, March-April 2005.

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