Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is an Indian activist and editor. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies, and of The Small School. His most notable accomplishment is a peace walk with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries – Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a...
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth9 August 1936
insecure caring technology
In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and technology, many Americans are living under deprivation and anxiety. So happiness is not in accumulation of material goods, it's in sharing and caring.
simple climate busy
The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated
enlightenment world speak
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
government tea important
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
motivational giving-up fate
In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.
attitude war animal
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
world path expenses
I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
two people one-day
We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.
journey together walks
I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.
running believe pursuit-of-happiness
"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.
soil stories continuum
We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.
philosophy world today
All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.
roots greed political
Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.
numbers people wake-up
Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."