Arundhati Roy Quotes - Page 4

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• Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process.

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  Real, Land, Class

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.41, South End Press

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• The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

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  Government, People, Hated

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.213, Haymarket Books

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• Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to find it more and more sick that only humans make it into our calculations... Annihilate life on earth, but save the nation... what's the subject heading? Stupidity or Insanity?

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  War, Sick, Long

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.

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  Ends

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• The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

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  Jobs, Real, Salary

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.335, Haymarket Books

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• I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

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  Mother, Husband, Kids

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• Money need not be our only reward.

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  Needs, Rewards

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

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  Family, Hurt, Doctors

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.70, Penguin Books India

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• Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

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  Events, Ordinary, Stories

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• Excitement always leads to tears.

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  Tears, Excitement

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.98, Penguin Books India

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• 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.

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  Country, Mean, Civilization

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

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  Independent, Mean, Profound

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• Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.

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  Country, Islands, Space

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.245, Penguin Books India

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• I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

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  Country, Men, Rivers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

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  Fighting, India, Village

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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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  People, Finals, Morality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

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  Real, Imagination, Revolution

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today is money... capital.

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  Moving, People, Today

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

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  Finding Love, Secret, Stories

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.229, Penguin Books India

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• Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

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  Morning, Believe, Thinking

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.45, South End Press

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• Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

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  Commitment, Justice, Social

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.79, Haymarket Books

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• India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are being killed and imprisoned in their thousands. Theirs is a battle of the imagination, a battle for the redefinition of the meaning of civilisation, of the meaning of happiness, of the meaning of fulfilment.

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  Fighting, People, Imagination

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.

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  Real, War, Simple

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• NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

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  Space, World, Complicated

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• There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to study, they were doctors and surgeons, walking free, wearing what they wanted. That was when it was under Soviet occupation. Then the United States starts funding the mujahideen. Reagan called them Afghanistan's "founding fathers." It reincarnates the idea of "jehad," virtually creates the Taliban.

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  Father, Doctors, Ideas

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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