Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think it was 50 million people across the world who marched against the war in Iraq. It was perhaps the biggest… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do,… — 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
I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?… The land of poetry and mad… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India, we have a right wing that is so vicious and so openly wicked, which is the Baratiya Janata party (BJP),… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The time has come for everybody -capitalists, communists, socialists- to ask themselves what 'civilization' really means. If not, whether a country calls… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We must pay close attention to those with another imagination: an imagination outside of capitalism, as well as communism. We will soon… — 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
