More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
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.
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
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.
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.
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
