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
Satish Kumar quotes about
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.
children destiny giving
Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.
spiritual art imagination
We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music.
moving land ideas
This was Mahatma Gandhi’s idea, moving from ownership to relationship—seeing that land does not belong to us. We belong to the land. We are not the owners of the land. We are the friends of the land, like friends of the earth. The fundamental shift is in this consciousness that land does not belong to us, we belong to the land.
rain ocean cutting
Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.
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.
water three dry
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
world path expenses
I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
people healthy needs
People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.
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.