"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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Source : Derrick Jensen (2000). “A Language Older Than Words”

Derrick Jensen

#Culture Quotes #Being Human Quotes #Produce Quotes

“Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong.”
“You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on water -typical Capricorn.”
“As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.”

Source : Interview with Tom Ford, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.
“I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the team but in the community.”
“The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.”
“Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.”

Source : "Steve Carell Braves His 'Office' Job" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2005.
“Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.”

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