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
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
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — 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
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The… — 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
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
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
“Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent.… — 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
From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Today, the Indian government is trying to present privatization as the alternative to the state, to public enterprise. But privatization is only… — 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
I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in… — 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
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
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
“It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real… — 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… — 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
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — 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
The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' -… — 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
![“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)
