Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no… — 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… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to… — 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
But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India, we have a right wing that is so vicious and so openly wicked, which is the Baratiya Janata party (BJP),… — 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
The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you look at Indian society, it's a society made up of minorities. There's nobody who's not a minority, whether it's ethnicity,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should… — 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 corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular… — 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 you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
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 was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it… — 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 Image
![“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the…” quote by Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f3/arundhati-roy-346_activism_the-booker-prize-was-actually-responsibl_634250.jpg)
