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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.
A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.
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.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
