Vandana Shiva Quotes

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

To know is to control.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominance.

Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

Engineering the biological world was even more interesting than engineering the mechanical world.

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

All shall love me and despair.