10 Vandana Shiva Quotes That Inspire New ParadiGms
Vandana Shiva Is an Indian scholar, author, and activist who has been working against the concept globalization since before it was cool. She advocates for the empowerment of women, the poor, and all who are disenfranchised by the modern economic system. She advocates for a human destiny lives more peacefully with the Earth and is on the power of local economies.
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.,
Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.
Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis of an economy of wellbeing, and such an economy must be localised.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.
Yo u are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall functions of not just our planet, but our relationship with other planets.
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