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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 Roy

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
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Beginning Horror Risk Tranquility Work
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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Difference One Liner Sick Terrorism
The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.
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Innocent Politics Quiet Responsibility See Trouble Yourself
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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Beyond Life Way World
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence – so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only – or well that’s excessive – usually, the resistance.
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Investment Legal Resistence Right Violence
Use your art to fight.
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Art Fight One Liner
Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
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Acceptance Change
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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Control Digital Poor World
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
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Human Integrity Project Right
The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
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Important One Liner Worth
Some things come with their own punishments.
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Karma One Liner Punishment Reality Wisdom
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It’s over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don’t.
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Change Destroy History Love Past
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.
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Feeling Shame Slave Thinking
People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.
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Freedom Growth People Romantic Sky Stars Vision
That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
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Care Love People Word
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
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Chance Empathy Fight Important Peace Quality

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