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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.

Arundhati Roy

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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Beginning Horror Risk Tranquility Work
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
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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Change Foundation Fund Imagination Money Reality Revolution Trust
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.
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Impossible Inspirational Thinking Time
Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum – all we are supposed to expect – but human rights aren’t enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.
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Demand Enough Expectation Fundamental Human Justice Right
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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Freedom Growth People Romantic Sky Stars Vision
Money need not be our only reward.
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Money Need One Liner Ourselves Reward
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
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
Use your art to fight.
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Art Fight One Liner
Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.
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Culture Difficult Injustice Need People Power Resistance Society
NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
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Dangerous Time Worst
I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a ‘natural ally’ of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.
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Feeling Shame Slave Thinking
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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Breathe Herself Journey Myself Possible Quiet World
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.
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Fear Hairs Hands Himself Love Relationship Rose
Excitement always leads to tears.
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Destination Excitement One Liner Path Tears

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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