Arundhati Roy Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, Giving, Empathy

• Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.

  Arundhati Roy

  Gratitude, Thinking, Giving

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.136, Penguin Books India

• It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an absurd idea of yourself. I know that there's a fine balance between accepting your own power with grace and misusing it. And I don't ever want to portray myself as a representative of the voiceless. I'm scared of that.

  Arundhati Roy

  Believe, Ideas, Giving

  Source: progressive.org

• Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time when the United States waged war to topple democracies, because back then democracy was a threat to the Free Market. Countries were nationalising their resources, protecting their markets.... So then, real democracies were being toppled. They were toppled in Iran, they were toppled all across Latin America, Chile.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Real, War

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.

  Arundhati Roy

  Letting Go, Dream, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.

  Arundhati Roy

  Girl, Mother, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

• Today, the Indian government is trying to present privatization as the alternative to the state, to public enterprise. But privatization is only a further evolution of the centralized state, where the state says that they have the right to give the entire power production in Maharashtra to Enron.

  Arundhati Roy

  Government, Giving, Trying

  Source: progressive.org

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