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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For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.
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Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
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Our point of view on this question of the function of art is the same in all cases: there's no more an art of the insane than there is an art of dyspeptic people or the art of people with knee problems.
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
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Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.
