Arundhati Roy Quotes About Nuclear Weapons

Quotes about: Nuclear Weapons

• The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Iraq, Nuclear

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.333, Penguin Books India

• It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

  Arundhati Roy

  Believe, Nuclear, Weapons

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.49, Haymarket Books

• It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Heart

• I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, India And Pakistan, America

  Source: progressive.org

• With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with nuclear bombs. It's such an irony! You're saying that the world is a global village, but then you want to spend crores of rupees on building nuclear weapons.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Hands, Borders

  Source: progressive.org

• When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, Blood, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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