Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is… — 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
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
“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent… — 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
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who… — 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
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
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
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart… — 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
