It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.
ARUNDHATI ROYExcitement always leads to tears.
More Arundhati Roy Quotes
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Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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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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How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.
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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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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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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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Privatization is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all… it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World.
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States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence – so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only – or well that’s excessive – usually, the resistance.
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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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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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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 world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.
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Use your art to fight.
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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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