Vandana Shiva Quotes

The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions.

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the gap. There's something wrong when a handful of people have more than they'll ever need while millions of people have less than they always need.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

Hunger could not exist but through violation of economic laws and fundamental principles of social justice.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

We currently reside in the wealthiest and most powerful civilization in the history of the world. The idea that someone should go hungry or be without the bare essentials of life is, to me... It's not shameful, I actually think it's criminal.

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

[On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.