The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan… — 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
I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation… — 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
Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop.… — 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
Delhi is a very maligned city, and deservedly so. Yet there's something about it. It's a secret city, it doesn't hang out… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is… — 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
The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and… — 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
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
When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual… — 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
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to… — 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
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China… — 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
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