Humans Quotes by Vandana Shiva

11 Humans quotes by Vandana Shiva

If you’re curious about how one activist frames the human story, this handful of Vandana Shiva’s reflections offers a concise glimpse into her perspective on our species and its choices.

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We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall…

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I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have…

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We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that…

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The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just…

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Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit…

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My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged…

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We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations…

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We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are…

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Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the…

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I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and…

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We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the…

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The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates…

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Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows…

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Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

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For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and…

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I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal…

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