"Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility."

-- Derrick Jensen

#Responsibility Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.”
“The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.”
“I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.”
“We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only through having cultures that mankind on this earth has an ordered and meaningful life. Music and drama are two of the many important manifestation of a culture. They are important because they represent the expressions emanating from the power of human artistic creativity”
“It was cool to have Mark [Hamill] ask me to do all these voices for him like he was a fan. I was like, "You're not meeting me, I'm meeting you."”
“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.”
“They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.”
“You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.”

You may also like:

Chellis Glendinning
Author
Chris Hedges
Author
Daniel Quinn
Novelist
Jack D. Forbes
Writer
John Zerzan
Philosopher
Lierre Keith
Writer
Richard Heinberg
Journalist
Vandana Shiva
Author
Waziyatawin
Author