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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
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.
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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.
I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.
