Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
ARUNDHATI ROYThe world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.
More Arundhati Roy Quotes
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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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There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
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Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.
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The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
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If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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The world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.
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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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Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
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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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The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.
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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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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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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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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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