More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
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.
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
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.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
