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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind.
