Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows and the cyclists. So for the first time the sacred cow in India, which used to be such a wonderful speed-breaker, is now seen as a nuisance. For the first time, I’ve seen cows being hit and hurt. These guys just go right past, and if the cow is sitting on the road, they don’t care. We can’t afford to have a sacred car rather than a sacred cow.

I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

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.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.