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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
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.
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
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.
