Vandana Shiva Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• 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.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Agriculture, Today

• Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

  Vandana Shiva

  Needs, Patterns, Violence

  Vandana Shiva (2016). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.102, Zed Books Ltd.

• My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, War, Book

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Democracy, Soil

• It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mistake, Healing, Diversity

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