Derrick Jensen Quotes

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

I'm one of those people that thinks the world changes in smaller and in more mysterious ways than a lot of people like to think. A lot of traditional charities and organizations do things that on the surface seem like a good idea, but it doesn't change the way that people think about interacting with other people.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Capitalism had been more revolutionary than any previous social system. It had swept away without scruples old institutions and modes of thought, if they were found to stand in its way.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.