Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to. — 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
The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a… — 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
Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What… — 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
“Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little… — 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
The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights… — 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
...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
