The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.
ARUNDHATI ROYNationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don’t know.
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I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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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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Money need not be our only reward.
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Things can change in a day.
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The revolution cannot be funded. It’s not the imagination of trusts and foundations that’s going to bring real change.
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The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.
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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.
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The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government’s policies, that are so hated.
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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.
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Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
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