Arundhati Roy on control
Arundhati Roy73 quotes“Is globalization about ‘the eradication of world poverty,’ or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?”
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Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.
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Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a ‘natural ally’ of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy The idea of justice – even just dreaming of justice – is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust – and then tries to make it more accountable.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government’s policies, that are so hated.
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William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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