Quotes by Vandana Shiva

About Vandana Shiva:

Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist and anti-globalization author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books.
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Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Vandana Shiva

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Vandana Shiva

Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins w...

Vandana Shiva

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

Vandana Shiva

Author Bio

  • NameVandana Shiva
  • DescriptionIndian philosopher
  • BornNovember 5, 1952
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Physicist; Writer
  • AwardsRight Livelihood Award; Sydney Peace Prize; Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize