--- title: "8 Patents Quotes By Vandana Shiva" description: "8 Patents quotes by Vandana Shiva. Plus more from Vandana Shiva and more Patents sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3a/vandana-shiva-2756_biodiversity_for-us-not-cooperating-in-the-monopoly-r_246211.jpg" --- > [For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/for-us-not-cooperating-in-the-monopoly-regimes-of-intellectual/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3a/vandana-shiva-2756_biodiversity_for-us-not-cooperating-in-the-monopoly-r_246211.jpg) > [I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/i-describe-what-is-happening-as-food-fascism-because-this-system-can/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18a/vandana-shiva-2756_aspect_i-describe-what-is-happening-as-food-fas_250447.jpg) > [There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/there-is-now-a-patent-restricting-the-use-of-an-herb-called-philantis/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/vandana-shiva-2756_capacity_there-is-now-a-patent-restricting-the-us_1264354.jpg) > [I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/i-ve-just-been-told-that-nestle-has-taken-out-patents-on-the-making/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/276/vandana-shiva-2756_common_i-ve-just-been-told-that-nestle-has-take_1292000.jpg) > [If you read Wall Street’s reports, they don’t talk of soya bean as originating in China. They don’t talk of soya bean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/if-you-read-wall-street-s-reports-they-don-t-talk-of-soya-bean-as/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0c/vandana-shiva-2756_beans_if-you-read-wall-street-s-reports-they-d_1306478.jpg) > [It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/it-s-a-phenomenon-that-started-in-the-united-states-in-which/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/vandana-shiva-2756_biodiversity_it-s-a-phenomenon-that-started-in-the-un_1698576.jpg) > [I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/i-have-called-this-phenomenon-of-stealing-common-knowledge-and/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/vandana-shiva-2756_able_i-have-called-this-phenomenon-of-stealin_2561540.jpg) > [Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/biopiracy-is-biological-theft-illegal-collection-of-indigenous-plants/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8d/vandana-shiva-2756_collections_biopiracy-is-biological-theft-illegal-co_3115659.jpg) ## Other authors on Patents - [Kalyan C. Kankanala 22 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/patents/kalyan-c-kankanala/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nathan-myhrvold-70442.jpg) Nathan Myhrvold 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/patents/nathan-myhrvold/) ## More by Vandana Shiva > [We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/we-share-this-planet-our-home-with-millions-of-species-justice-and/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/the-enclosure-of-the-biological-and-intellectual-commons-in-this-way/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/ecofeminism-is-a-good-term-for-distinguishing-a-feminism-that-is/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/in-the-seed-and-the-soil-we-find-the-answers-to-every-one-of-the/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/we-could-replace-people-with-fossil-fuels-have-higher-and-higher/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/nobody-defines-it-as-something-women-shouldn-t-be-doing-in-a-way/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/because-of-these-new-car-models-there-is-suddenly-on-the-streets-of/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/diversity-creates-harmony-and-harmony-creates-beauty-balance-bounty/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/for-us-not-cooperating-in-the-monopoly-regimes-of-intellectual/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/i-describe-what-is-happening-as-food-fascism-because-this-system-can/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/my-mother-was-a-tremendous-woman-i-was-just-cleaning-up-old-trunks/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/patriarchy-is-based-on-appropriating-rights-and-leaving/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/the-poorest-of-families-the-poorest-of-children-are-subsidizing-the/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/water-must-be-free-for-sustenance-needs-since-nature-gives-water-to/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/the-abuse-of-the-earth-is-the-ecological-crisis/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/patents/vandana-shiva/#itemlist", "name": "8 Patents Quotes By Vandana Shiva", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying \"no\" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. 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