--- title: "20 Ifs Quotes By Arundhati Roy" description: "20 Ifs quotes by Arundhati Roy. Plus more from Arundhati Roy and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbc/arundhati-roy-346_ifs_if-you-want-to-control-somebody-support_2943445.png" --- > [If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/if-you-want-to-control-somebody-support-them-or-marry-them/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbc/arundhati-roy-346_ifs_if-you-want-to-control-somebody-support_2943445.png) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a1/arundhati-roy-346_believe_it-is-such-a-supreme-folly-to-believe-th_34831.png) > [Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/fascism-itself-can-only-be-turned-away-if-all-those-who-are-outraged/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52f/arundhati-roy-346_commitment_fascism-itself-can-only-be-turned-away-i_1413292.png) > [If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/if-you-re-not-religious-then-look-at-it-this-way-this-world-of-ours/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eae/arundhati-roy-346_afternoon_if-you-re-not-religious-then-look-at-it_1056083.png) > [The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-trouble-is-that-once-america-goes-off-to-war-it-can-t-very-well/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/arundhati-roy-346_america_the-trouble-is-that-once-america-goes-of_412398.png) > [Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/imagine-what-would-happen-if-the-government-were-to-take-the-wealth/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be7/arundhati-roy-346_appropriation_imagine-what-would-happen-if-the-governm_2238502.jpg) > [In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/in-delhi-the-cars-are-getting-bigger-and-sleeker-the-hotels-are/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dd/arundhati-roy-346_bigger_in-delhi-the-cars-are-getting-bigger-and_1869415.jpg) > [If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/if-protesting-against-having-a-nuclear-bomb-implanted-in-my-brain-is/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/112/arundhati-roy-346_bans_if-protesting-against-having-a-nuclear-b_2262986.jpg) > [The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-corporate-revolution-will-collapse-if-we-refuse-to-buy-what-they/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c3/arundhati-roy-346_collapse_the-corporate-revolution-will-collapse-i_696503.png) > [If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/if-you-look-at-the-history-of-the-ford-foundation-and-rockefeller-in/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7d/arundhati-roy-346_america_if-you-look-at-the-history-of-the-ford-f_678609.jpg) > [But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/but-remember-that-if-the-struggle-were-to-resort-to-violence-it-will/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/arundhati-roy-346_beauty_but-remember-that-if-the-struggle-were-t_1645738.png) > [Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/look-at-the-israel-palestine-conflict-for-example-if-you-look-at-a/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fed/arundhati-roy-346_battle_look-at-the-israel-palestine-conflict-fo_2433687.png) > [Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/our-strategy-should-be-not-only-to-confront-empire-but-to-lay-siege/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b3/arundhati-roy-346_ability_our-strategy-should-be-not-only-to-confr_1473481.jpg) > [We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/we-often-confuse-or-loosely-use-the-ideas-of-crony-capitalism-or/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3c/arundhati-roy-346_capitalism_we-often-confuse-or-loosely-use-the-idea_464717.jpg) > [If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/if-you-are-religious-then-remember-that-this-bomb-is-man-s-challenge/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/arundhati-roy-346_afternoon_if-you-are-religious-then-remember-that_1773125.jpg) > [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) > [The time has come for everybody -capitalists, communists, socialists- to ask themselves what 'civilization' really means. If not, whether a country calls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-time-has-come-for-everybody-capitalists-communists-socialists-to/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed1/arundhati-roy-346_asks_the-time-has-come-for-everybody-capitali_2841299.png) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/we-re-told-often-enough-that-as-a-species-we-are-poised-on-the-edge/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/arundhati-roy-346_abyss_we-re-told-often-enough-that-as-a-specie_2773775.jpg) > [Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/just-a-few-years-ago-india-pakistan-and-bangladesh-were-one-country/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1a/arundhati-roy-346_bangladesh_just-a-few-years-ago-india-pakistan-and_1062761.jpg) > [What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/what-s-a-country-it-s-just-an-administrative-unit-a-glorified/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/arundhati-roy-346_administrative_what-s-a-country-it-s-just-an-administra_520129.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## 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/ifs/arundhati-roy/#itemlist", "name": "20 Ifs Quotes By Arundhati Roy", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you want to control somebody, support them. 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