Vandana Shiva Quotes

I can tell you what I am working on, which is being more cognizant of my actions and how they affect others, most I will never meet. I've begun with my purchases. I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five that are cheaper but made with GMO cotton, which is hard on Earth. It's caring a little more beyond myself. And I think it may be our only hope - and it feels much better to my soul, which in the end may be all we have.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

My material life is simple.

The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

I'd rather make less money and live in a just world.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

I'm fine with just a simple life.

But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?

Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.