“Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In the years to come, when the war became a way of life, there would be books and films and photo exhibitions… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“To fuel yet another war this time against Iraq by cynically manipulating people's grief, by packaging it for TV specials sponsored by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching.… — 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
