Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market"… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
