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.
ARUNDHATI ROYSometimes there’s truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
More Arundhati Roy Quotes
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Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
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Use your art to fight.
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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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Things can change in a day.
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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 American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government’s policies, that are so hated.
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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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The world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.
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Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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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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Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
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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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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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If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
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