Peace Quotes by Arundhati Roy

“Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?”

— Arundhati Roy

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

— Arundhati Roy

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we…

— Arundhati Roy

“In the years to come, when the war became a way of life, there would be books and films and photo exhibitions…

— Arundhati Roy

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

— Arundhati Roy

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of…

— Arundhati Roy

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

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going…

— Arundhati Roy

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when…

— Arundhati Roy

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

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse…

— Arundhati Roy

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which…

— Arundhati Roy

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

People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap…

— Arundhati Roy

I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm…

— Arundhati Roy

“To fuel yet another war this time against Iraq by cynically manipulating people's grief, by packaging it for TV specials sponsored by…

— Arundhati Roy

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame…

— Arundhati Roy

“The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively…

— Arundhati Roy

And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear…

— Arundhati Roy

“But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching.…

— Arundhati Roy