Vandana Shiva Quotes
Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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When we've got something to say to the world, we will. I'm really happy that people are interested. "So, what's up with the Pixies record? So, what's up with the Pixies record?" One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, "I just got done telling you no, there's nothing to report."
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The injury that ended my time in football turned out to be serendipitous. I tore my Achilles while training for a pending tryout with the New York Giants, and when it snapped, so did my career, basically. That's what led me to gain the confidence to get into the acting world on my own terms.
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.
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I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
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Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.
