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Government Quotes by Arundhati Roy

19 Government quotes by Arundhati Roy

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When Arundhati Roy turns her pen toward the state, she blends literary flair with sharp political insight. This set of 19 quotations captures her distinctive voice, questioning authority while championing justice. Dive in for a concise yet resonant look at how she frames the mechanics of governance.

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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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Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by…

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It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that…

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Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst…

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Your short-term gains are the rest of the world's long-term disasters - for everybody, including yourselves. And, I'm sorry, I've been saying…

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“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million…

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In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' -…

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The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China…

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Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the…

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Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of…

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...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart…

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Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and…

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The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so…

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I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the…

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So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which…

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From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge…

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Today, the Indian government is trying to present privatization as the alternative to the state, to public enterprise. But privatization is only…

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The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to…

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People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap…

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Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

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Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

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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…

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It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

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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.

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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.

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But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there…

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Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really…

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