Political Quotes by Arundhati Roy

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

— Arundhati Roy

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

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

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

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no…

— Arundhati Roy

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end…

— Arundhati Roy

The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to…

— Arundhati Roy

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

But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all,…

— Arundhati Roy

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am…

— Arundhati Roy

In India, we have a right wing that is so vicious and so openly wicked, which is the Baratiya Janata party (BJP),…

— Arundhati Roy

Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been…

— Arundhati Roy

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

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as…

— Arundhati Roy

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

The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the…

— Arundhati Roy

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