Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
ARUNDHATI ROYThe only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
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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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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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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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If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.
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I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
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Use your art to fight.
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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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The revolution cannot be funded. It’s not the imagination of trusts and foundations that’s going to bring real change.
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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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Excitement always leads to tears.
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The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.
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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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Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.
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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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