It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't… — 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
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
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
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old.… — 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
Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself… — 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
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up,… — 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
...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
