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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.

Arundhati Roy

If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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Count Dreams Happiness
When people say “the people” or “the public” as though it’s the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.
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Moral Myself People Reaction
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.
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Believe Courage Dignity Dreams Freedom Hope Justice Lost Opportunity Romance Time
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.
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Feeling Life Live People Romantic Sorry View
We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.
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Destruction Government Kind Need Politics Resistance World
A political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
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Heart Politics Struggle Woman
Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.
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Intellectual Intelligence Worth
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
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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Destroy Destruction Weapon
Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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Hope Human Joy Love Mad Nature Possible
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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Future Live Ourselves Past People Practice Thinking
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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Clothes Color Death Government Kind Mindset Nation Oneself People
Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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Literature Opposite Weapon
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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Break History Ideas Need Power Remember Revolution War Weapon
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
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.
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Country Depression Greatness Growth Key Way Weapon

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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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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