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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

Arundhati Roy

People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.
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Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.
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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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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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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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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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I’m not ambitious. I don’t want to get anywhere, I don’t want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don’t want anything. I don’t want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
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It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.
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Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It’s very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.
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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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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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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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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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Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
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Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
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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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