Arundhati Roy on future
Arundhati Roy73 quotes“To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.”
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Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Some things come with their own punishments.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy 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.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Money need not be our only reward.
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 Is globalization about ‘the eradication of world poverty,’ or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
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.
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