Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people without the kinds of instruments he revived. Civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£When you control seed you control food.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.ÔÇØ

Vandana Shiva