Robert Jensen Quotes

#1. We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

Robert Jensen

#2. History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.

Robert Jensen

#3. Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Matt Groening

#4. Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there's a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.

Robert Jensen

#5. Feminism remains a crucial element of any program for social justice today, which is why patriarchal forces attempt to eliminate or marginalize feminist ideas.

Robert Jensen

#6. Maybe it was just the perfect realization to all ones' dreams ... where a magic elixir could heal you and make you strong, where men could make roses bloom with the single touch of a thumb, and where the bigger women were, so much the better.

Tiffany Baker

#7. When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

William J. Clinton

#8. Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.

Robert Jensen

#9. I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism, but to sweep away the notion and acknowledge it as morally, politically, and intellectually bankrupt. It is time to scrap patriotism.

Robert Jensen

#10. The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

Robert Jensen

#11. Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Eric Hoffer

#12. Government is not competent enough to regulate.

James Cook

#13. Our goal should not be to reshape masculinity but to eliminate it. The goal is liberation from the masculinity trap.

Robert Jensen

#14. We live in an industrial world with a globalized capitalist economy organized politically around nation-states. Finding a willing audience for even a mild critique of any of these foundational systems is not easy; suggesting that all three systems should be rethought in fundamental ways seems crazy.

Robert Jensen

#15. Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it.

Robert Jensen

#16. The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#17. A sensible way to begin a discussion of that greater good is to focus on the current conditions within the human family and on the state of the larger living world.

Robert Jensen

#18. I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.

Robert Jensen

#19. The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.

Robert Jensen

#20. They had no idea her Valyusha wasn't the real threat. Silver would annihilate anyone who dared hurt him again.

Nalini Singh

#21. You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass.

Lady Gaga

#22. I feel like dough, being kneaded and reshaped again and again.

Suzanne Collins

#23. What made Jim truly mystical was his ability to live fully conscious of how, every day, a bit more of the sacred becomes desecrated. Still, Jim's awareness of how much had been lost didn't stop him from appreciating what remained.

Robert Jensen

#24. I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

Daisy Fuentes

#25. Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question "What do these people have to do with us?" and "What are we doing out there in the world?

Kamila Shamsie

#26. You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

Bill Ayers

#27. People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

Robert Jensen