--- title: "19 Has beens Quotes By Arundhati Roy" description: "19 Has beens quotes by Arundhati Roy. Plus more from Arundhati Roy and more Has beens sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/740/arundhati-roy-346_assange_snowden-is-the-thoughtful-courageous-sai_2084100.png" --- > [Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/snowden-is-the-thoughtful-courageous-saint-of-liberal-reform-and/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/740/arundhati-roy-346_assange_snowden-is-the-thoughtful-courageous-sai_2084100.png) > [Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/thousands-of-years-of-ideological-philosophical-and-practical/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd3/arundhati-roy-346_altered_thousands-of-years-of-ideological-philos_68967.png) > [When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/when-you-think-of-how-much-violence-how-much-blood-how-much-has-been/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25e/arundhati-roy-346_america_when-you-think-of-how-much-violence-how_1232162.jpg) > [As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/as-a-writer-i-ve-often-said-that-among-the-other-things-that-we-need/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c79/arundhati-roy-346_billionaire_as-a-writer-i-ve-often-said-that-among-t_1184671.png) > [It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/it-s-ok-just-to-be-a-writer-who-writes-about-the-society-in-which-he/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/arundhati-roy-346_has-beens_it-s-ok-just-to-be-a-writer-who-writes-a_2382722.jpg) > [Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/every-strategy-for-real-social-change-land-reform-education-public/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/arundhati-roy-346_castes_every-strategy-for-real-social-change-la_2693478.png) > [After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/after-using-the-good-offices-of-un-diplomacy-economic-sanctions-and/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8f/arundhati-roy-346_allies_after-using-the-good-offices-of-un-diplo_1344421.png) > [What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/what-sort-of-love-is-this-love-that-we-have-for-countries-what-sort/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/arundhati-roy-346_ability_what-sort-of-love-is-this-love-that-we-h_499257.png) > [Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/iraq-was-only-the-latest-in-a-succession-of-countries-earlier-there/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0e/arundhati-roy-346_bottles_iraq-was-only-the-latest-in-a-succession_1967333.png) > [We're supposed to forget whatever happened in the past because 9/11 is where history begins. Okay, since 2001, how many wars have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/we-re-supposed-to-forget-whatever-happened-in-the-past-because-9-11/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c92/arundhati-roy-346_country_we-re-supposed-to-forget-whatever-happen_3073855.jpg) > [I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-am-an-artist-and-a-writer-and-i-do-think-that-one-always-places/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6c/arundhati-roy-346_art_i-am-an-artist-and-a-writer-and-i-do-thi_1115272.jpg) > [In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/in-the-forests-of-central-india-and-in-many-many-rural-areas-a-huge/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/arundhati-roy-346_areas_in-the-forests-of-central-india-and-in-m_978445.jpg) > [So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/so-far-as-we-are-concerned-there-is-not-one-word-in-the-statements/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/696/arundhati-roy-346_behalf_so-far-as-we-are-concerned-there-is-not_1773857.jpg) > [The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-war-in-afghanistan-was-fought-for-feminist-reasons-and-the/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/arundhati-roy-346_afghanistan_the-war-in-afghanistan-was-fought-for-fe_2111455.png) > [In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/in-america-the-poor-have-been-invisibilised-because-obviously-this/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b0/arundhati-roy-346_america_in-america-the-poor-have-been-invisibili_961193.png) > [Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/democracy-no-longer-means-what-it-was-meant-to-it-has-been-taken-back-2/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/arundhati-roy-346_balls_democracy-no-longer-means-what-it-was-me_2495006.png) > [This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/this-is-a-diseased-century-we-diagnosed-the-disease-and-its-causes/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25f/arundhati-roy-346_causes_this-is-a-diseased-century-we-diagnosed_2498640.png) > [Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/now-we-re-in-a-situation-where-democracy-has-been-taken-into-the/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/arundhati-roy-346_corporate_now-we-re-in-a-situation-where-democracy_2947705.jpg) > [Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/our-tragedy-today-is-not-just-that-millions-of-people-who-called/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/arundhati-roy-346_afghanistan_our-tragedy-today-is-not-just-that-milli_1223409.jpg) ## Other authors on Has beens ## More by Arundhati Roy > [...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/as-the-disparity-between-the-rich-and-the-poor-grows-the-fight-to/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/in-2001-we-were-told-that-the-war-in-afghanistan-was-a-feminist/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terrorists/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/flat-muscled-and-honey-coloured-sea-secrets-in-his-eyes-a-silver/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/fiction-and-non-fiction-are-only-different-techniques-of-story/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/ngos-have-a-complicated-space-in-neoliberal-politics-they-are/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-ve-never-been-that-person-who-thought-that-because-i-ve-written-one/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/it-is-such-a-supreme-folly-to-believe-that-nuclear-weapons-are-deadly/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-think-one-of-the-saddest-things-that-s-happening-to-literature-is/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-only-dream-worth-having-i-told-her-is-to-dream-that-you-will-live/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/but-what-was-there-to-say-only-that-there-were-tears-only-that/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/truly-there-s-no-alternative-to-stupidity-cretinism-is-the-mother-of/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-secret-of-the-great-stories-is-that-they-have-no-secrets-the/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/stilts-the-ground-floors-given-over-to-parking-it-s-a-good-idea-in/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/perhaps-it-s-true-that-things-can-change-in-a-day-that-a-few-dozen/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/has-beens/arundhati-roy/#itemlist", "name": "19 Has beens Quotes By Arundhati Roy", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. 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What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? 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