Money need not be our only reward.
ARUNDHATI ROYRailing 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.
More Arundhati Roy Quotes
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Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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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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Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn’t matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.
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Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
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Sometimes there’s truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
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NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.
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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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Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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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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Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
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There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
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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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I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don’t know.
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Use your art to fight.
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