the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people. — 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
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 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
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
I think it was 50 million people across the world who marched against the war in Iraq. It was perhaps the biggest… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?… The land of poetry and mad… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We must pay close attention to those with another imagination: an imagination outside of capitalism, as well as communism. We will soon… — 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
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
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
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
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
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
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
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
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
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
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“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… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
