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Vandana Shiva
“The business of grabbing and money-making, through a violent extractive economy that the 1% have built, is burdening the earth and humanity with unbearable and non-sustainable costs, and has brought us to the brink of extinction. We do not have to escape from the earth; we have to escape from the illusions that enslave our minds and make extinction look inevitable.”
Vandana Shiva, Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

“When we condemn men--corporate employees and ngo functionaries, police, soldiers--for taking advantage of hungry women and children, we stay within the bounds of conventional morality. When we ask why women and children are made hungry in the first place, why their economies or societies have collapsed, why they are abjectly dependent on food aid or why corporate mercenaries are at large in their countries, we risk departing from the conventional by rejecting the camouflaging power of scale, and holding the larger crimes to be as wicked as the smaller ones.
D.A. Clarke, Resisting the New Sexual World order”
Rebecca Whisnant, Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography

Vandana Shiva
“Staying home is an ecological imperative, an ethical imperative. It is also a joyful option. It is the practice of oikonomia as the art of living. It is earth democracy in action, cultivating and expanding the freedoms of all beings.”
Vandana Shiva, Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

Neil Peart
“Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.”
Neil Peart

Erich Fromm
“To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.”
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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