"Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?"

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Source : Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.25, Seven Stories Press

Lierre Keith

#Warrior Quotes #Feel Better Quotes #Want Quotes

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”
“Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”
“Hope springs eternal, even in politics.”
“I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end.”
“I ever said back when we had our choice words I still told everybody that I respected him. I wouldn't want to have to do [Joe Rogan] job and I don't know anybody else that could do his job.”
“I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.”
“Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.”
“Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.”

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