I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the… — 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
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live… — 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
We're supposed to forget whatever happened in the past because 9/11 is where history begins. Okay, since 2001, how many wars have… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Delhi is a very maligned city, and deservedly so. Yet there's something about it. It's a secret city, it doesn't hang out… — 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… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the… — 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
We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once… — 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
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
After Iraq, there's been Libya, there's Syria, and the rhetoric of, you know, democracy versus radical Islam. When you look at the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it… — 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 Image
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 Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
![“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the…” quote by Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f3/arundhati-roy-346_activism_the-booker-prize-was-actually-responsibl_634250.jpg)
