Tim Dechristopher Quotes

#1. No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther

Dan Brown

#3. What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

Tim DeChristopher

#4. We need actions that are really coming from people's souls.

Tim DeChristopher

#5. Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight.

Tim DeChristopher

#6. I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.

Warren Buffett

#7. Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon the strength of spiritual communities and a large base of their organizing has been through them.

Tim DeChristopher

#8. If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don't make any substantial change.

Tim DeChristopher

#9. Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence.

Tim DeChristopher

#10. The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

Mortimer Collins

#11. In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties.

Albert Einstein

#12. The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Christiaan Barnard

#13. We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

Tim DeChristopher

#14. My values are primarily motivated by love for other people. I value the non-human world in large part because it's so vital to human beings. Even my appreciation for wilderness grows out of an understanding of how important wilderness can be for people.

Tim DeChristopher

#15. Civil disobedience is an act of love.

Tim DeChristopher

#16. Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

Tim DeChristopher

#17. No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch."
"Good," Sanjit said.
"Good? Why good?"
"Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you.

Michael Grant

#18. The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.

Tim DeChristopher

#19. It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

Tim DeChristopher

#20. Respond to stressful times by turning towards each other, rather than away from each other.

Tim DeChristopher

#21. Our security doesn't come from turning away from the hard stuff; it comes from the knowledge that we can handle it.

Tim DeChristopher

#22. I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.

Tim DeChristopher

#23. Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

Chuck D

#24. That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the ends we desire, no matter how hard we work, nor how much "stuff" we accumulate.

Tim DeChristopher

#25. Love is who you are, don't resist it.

E'yen A. Gardner

#26. Dealing with our negative emotions is a crucial preparatory step to taking effective action. You have to grapple with the hard stuff, with the hard realities of the world. This builds your confidence that you can handle those intense situations when they arise.

Tim DeChristopher

#27. I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it's about the people.

Tim DeChristopher

#28. Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.

H.P. Lovecraft

#29. I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

Tim DeChristopher

#30. We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

Winona LaDuke