Maria Mies quotes

“Peace in patriarchy is war against women.”
-- Maria Mies

Source : Maria Mies (1998). “Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour”, p.26, Palgrave Macmillan

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“If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end”
-- Maria Mies

Source : Maria Mies (1998). “Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour”, p.38, Palgrave Macmillan

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“Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.”
-- Maria Mies

Source : Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva (1993). “Ecofeminism”, Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood

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“It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.”

“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

“The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.”

Source : A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

“The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

“Benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.”

“Peace in patriarchy is war against women.”

Source : Maria Mies (1998). “Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour”, p.26, Palgrave Macmillan

“If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end”

Source : Maria Mies (1998). “Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour”, p.38, Palgrave Macmillan