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Vandana Shiva Inspirational Quotes (113)

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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 developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.
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I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.
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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 have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.
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Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
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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.
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I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.
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Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.
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In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
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When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
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I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just followed that and it's been very exciting.
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Food is the place where you begin.
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Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
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Biopiracy (is) biological theft illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
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An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.
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I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.
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democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.
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That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
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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 we're creating incomplete human beings.
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I do have fun. Even when I’m fighting I’m enjoying it: I think there’s nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.
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In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
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Governments have a favorite phrase: “lean and mean.” But they’ve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
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Uniformity is not nature's way diversity is nature's way.
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The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you provide them with economic and environmental security, the population will stabilize itself.
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We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.
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