Vandana Shiva Quotes

To me, India's always represented 'everything'; it represents 'all.' Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you'll never feel like you've missed out on life.

Thats what I crave that diversity.

The most universal quality is diversity.

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.

The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other.

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

America is not a country, it is a world.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

We must continue to show tolerance for those whose opinions and sincerely held beliefs differ from our own. We must lead by example, finding a way to respect one another and to celebrate a culture that protects religious freedom while promoting equality under the law.

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

There are still places in America that we need to nurture, to allow them to understand that there are other ways of living, and it's not wrong, just because it's not your way of living.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

When I came here [to Malaysia] I heard that there is a problem with the concept of pluralism whereby pluralism is understood in a very narrow way, which I think is wrong. This is not to diminish your sense of truth in what you believe but to acknowledge the fact that we live in a world where we need to deal with pluralism. It's a fact.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.