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You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

Arundhati Roy

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.
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Death Kind Nation Reason War
If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
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Ability Angry Emotion Lose Myself
I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.
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Divorce Hell Husband Injustice Mess Mom Myself Oppression Pay Price Violence Woman
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
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Chance Empathy Fight Important Peace Quality
Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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Hope Human Joy Love Mad Nature Possible
Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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Literature Opposite Weapon
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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Clothes Color Death People
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.
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Money Politics Reaction Reality Reason Resistance Scare
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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Creation Oneself People Place
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They’re usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there’s the business of war.
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Business Reason War
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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Bone Break Constitution Ordinary Story
I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don’t know.
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Country Cry Myself River Tears
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.
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Death Kill Lose Mindset People War Willing Win
The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government’s policies, that are so hated.
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Government Hate People Politics
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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Difference One Liner Sick Terrorism
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

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

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You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

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