175 Quotes by Vandana Shiva

Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis of an economy of wellbeing, and such an economy must be localised.

The business of grabbing and money-making, through a violent extractive economy that the 1% have built, is burdening the earth and humanity with unbearable and non-sustainable costs, and has brought us to the brink of extinction. We do not have to escape from the earth; we have to escape from the illusions that enslave our minds and make extinction look inevitable.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.

Gandhi is the other person. 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.