Arundhati Roy Quotes About Genocide

Quotes about: Genocide

• 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Government, People, Mind

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

• 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?"

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Lynching, Land

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Causes, Kind

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

• The time has come for everybody -capitalists, communists, socialists- to ask themselves what 'civilization' really means. If not, whether a country calls itself capitalist or communists, in the pursuit of 'progress' , it will visit genocide either on its own people or on another people whose country must be plundered for resources to feed the Progress industry.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Mean, Civilization

  Source: www.soldefter.com

• She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

  Arundhati Roy

  Cleansing, Furniture, Genocide

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.28, Penguin Books India

• The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Water, Population

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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