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
thinking civilization philosopher
Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.
jobs children thinking
The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.
thinking animal order
We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.
thinking names people
The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.
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There's not much fresh capacity addition happening and demand has always grown 1.3 times the real gross domestic product. So prices should remain firm or go up.
monks mother restless
I was a restless child. I did not go to school. My mother used to go to the monks of the Jain religion, and I would go with her.
eat items list outside
My mother, for example, made a list of 50 items which she could eat in her life, and she would not eat anything outside that list.
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With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
attend gives inner time
This gives us more time to attend the inner need.
arlington ended grave john kennedy month national walked walking
Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
extreme grew
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
higher standards
Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.
basic carry small
They have only handwritten manuscripts, because you can write very small and then you can carry the most basic manuscripts with you.
elderly happy means people relieved save savings
These are elderly people and the savings really means a lot to them. They are very happy and relieved that they can save money.