Arundhati Roy on change
Arundhati Roy73 quotes“The revolution cannot be funded. It’s not the imagination of trusts and foundations that’s going to bring real change.”
More from Arundhati 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.
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.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy
Original quotes
From our community writers
I am the universe, and every possibility belongs to me.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell The only thing that changed about you is me.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays He is my heaven and my hell. Serving passion and poison with the same spoon, and i am a sucker for a taste.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney My mistakes tell me I am quite human, but my brief flashes of brilliance tell me I am divine, too.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry My blood is fifty percent alcohol the other half was you.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Darling, you don’t fear love, you fear of loving wrong.
C.R. ElliottC.R. Elliott
Meet the writers
More on change
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
Charles SchumerCharles Schumer You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world – because you do.
Caroline MyssCaroline Myss To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.
Nick VujicicNick Vujicic I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.
Hudson TaylorHudson Taylor I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
PinkPink Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren’t then change it.
Dave RamseyDave Ramsey Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis WaitleyDenis Waitley
Keep exploring
More Indian authors
