Quote for the day – December 22

“I’ve never had much patience for those – and there are a lot of them – who consider humans to be the ‘apex’ of evolution, who evidently believe that all of evolution took place so that we can watch television”.

Derrick Jensen, Dreams

[Read about Derrick Jensen on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – October 25

25 Sunday Oct 2015

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Bright Green Lies, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert

“The industrial economy is based on systematic theft from land bases, and the conversion of these living communities into dead products. That’s what an industrial economy is. The economy does not create value for the real world: It destroys the real world”.

Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert, Bright Green Lies:

[Read about Derrick Jensen on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – August 2

02 Sunday Aug 2015

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Derrick Jensen, science, Stanley Aronowitz

“Since science has defined its methods as the only way to discover truth, the only acceptable criticisms of science are those conducted within the methodological framework that science has set up for itself. Further, science insists that only those who have been inducted into its community, through means of training and credentials, are qualified to make these criticisms”.

Stanley Aronowitz (as quoted by Derrick Jensen)