Arundhati Roy Quotes

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Feminist

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.330, Penguin Books India

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• To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

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  Life, Sad, Romantic

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.24, Penguin Books India

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• The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.

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  Political, Way, Saying Nothing

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics”

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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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  Motivational, Faith, Optimistic

  David Barsamian, Arundhati Roy (2004). “The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews”, p.11, South End Press

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• Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

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  Government, People, Mind

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.47, South End Press

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• That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

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  Love You, People, Littles

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.112, Penguin Books India

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• Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

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  Art, War, Believe

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.112, South End Press

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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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  Past, Thinking, Practice

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

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  War, Humans, Seems

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims.

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  Flower, Eye, Hair

  FaceBook post by Arundhati Roy from Feb 17, 2017

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• Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

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  Jail, Justice, Silence

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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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  Beautiful, Way, Bloody

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.104, Haymarket Books

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• The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

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  Globalization, Dissent

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.193, Haymarket Books

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• At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.

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  Dream, Believe, Business Deals

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.237, Penguin Books India

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• The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.

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  Country, Freedom, Numbers

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

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  Fighting, Giving, Empathy

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• Some things come with their own punishments.

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  Punishment, Cupboards

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.115, Penguin Books India

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• Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"

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  Country, Lynching, Land

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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  Women, Struggle, Heart

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.351, Penguin Books India

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• Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

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  Joy, Madness, Human Nature

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• 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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  Rights, Justice, Goal

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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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  Running, People, Abuse

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

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  Joining Hands, Needs, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.215, Penguin Books India

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• The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

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  Positive, War, Ideas

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.112, South End Press

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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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  Emotional, Robots, Would Be

  "The Damned". Interview with Mishal Husain, www.pbs.org. September 18, 2003.

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