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In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
War
Democracy
Soil
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.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Thinking
Self
Roots
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Luxury
Justice
Diversity
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Way
Damage
Ecological
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Compassion
Circles
People
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Real
Believe
Responsibility
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Responsibility
Rights
Leaving
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Joy
Ends
Accumulation
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Giving
Earth
GreatCompany
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Earth
Way
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