Something is very, very wrong when people dont have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Its not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. Its making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When you take the entire system into account, ways of developing more of something in one dimension can actually create scarcities in… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war.… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its time we… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
![“My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people…” quote by Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/461/vandana-shiva-2756_available_my-links-with-mahatma-gandhi-now-are-ver_1306949.jpg)
