--- title: "24 States Quotes By Arundhati Roy" description: "24 States quotes by Arundhati Roy. Plus more from Arundhati Roy and more States sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/arundhati-roy-346_constitution_sometimes-the-state-and-the-constitution_894033.png" --- > [Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/sometimes-the-state-and-the-constitution-are-more-enlightened-than/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/arundhati-roy-346_constitution_sometimes-the-state-and-the-constitution_894033.png) > [I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-feel-ashamed-that-the-new-nuclear-neo-liberal-india-thinks-of/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/arundhati-roy-346_allies_i-feel-ashamed-that-the-new-nuclear-neo_1495815.png) > [Your short-term gains are the rest of the world's long-term disasters - for everybody, including yourselves. And, I'm sorry, I've been saying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/your-short-term-gains-are-the-rest-of-the-world-s-long-term-disasters/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/arundhati-roy-346_america_your-short-term-gains-are-the-rest-of-th_1718841.png) > [States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/states-have-invested-themselves-with-the-right-to-legitimise-violence/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a38/arundhati-roy-346_crime_states-have-invested-themselves-with-the_3101762.png) > [Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states - Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/whatever-else-their-faults-may-be-they-were-not-radical-islamist/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/042/arundhati-roy-346_america_whatever-else-their-faults-may-be-they-w_479679.png) > [I don't think the state will allow people to occupy a particular space unless it feels that allowing that will end up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-don-t-think-the-state-will-allow-people-to-occupy-a-particular/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/arundhati-roy-346_allowing_i-don-t-think-the-state-will-allow-peopl_2825520.jpg) > [Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/privatisation-is-presented-as-being-the-only-alternative-to-an/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77c/arundhati-roy-346_alternatives_privatisation-is-presented-as-being-the_2757009.jpg) > [In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/in-india-the-poverty-is-so-vast-that-the-state-cannot-control-it-it/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/931/arundhati-roy-346_beats_in-india-the-poverty-is-so-vast-that-the_296276.png) > [Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/have-we-raised-the-threshold-of-horror-so-high-that-nothing-short-of/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/arundhati-roy-346_fingers_have-we-raised-the-threshold-of-horror-s_2139703.jpg) > [When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/when-the-united-states-invaded-iraq-a-new-york-times-cbs-news-survey/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/923/arundhati-roy-346_al-qaeda_when-the-united-states-invaded-iraq-a-ne_3188010.jpg) > [Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/talk-loud-enough-about-human-rights-and-it-gives-the-impression-of/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/arundhati-roy-346_america_talk-loud-enough-about-human-rights-and_412909.jpg) > [In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/in-2001-we-were-told-that-the-war-in-afghanistan-was-a-feminist/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/arundhati-roy-346_afghan_in-2001-we-were-told-that-the-war-in-afg_7991.png) > [Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/each-of-the-iraqi-children-killed-by-the-united-states-was-our-child/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a6/arundhati-roy-346_abu-ghraib_each-of-the-iraqi-children-killed-by-the_2333817.png) > [There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/there-was-a-time-when-the-women-of-afghanistan-at-least-in-kabul-were/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/arundhati-roy-346_afghanistan_there-was-a-time-when-the-women-of-afgha_3126205.png) > [Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/every-people-every-society-needs-a-culture-of-resistance-a-culture-of/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc1/arundhati-roy-346_able_every-people-every-society-needs-a-cultu_1603652.png) > [Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/iraq-was-only-the-latest-in-a-succession-of-countries-earlier-there/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0e/arundhati-roy-346_bottles_iraq-was-only-the-latest-in-a-succession_1967333.png) > [If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/if-you-look-at-the-history-of-the-ford-foundation-and-rockefeller-in/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7d/arundhati-roy-346_america_if-you-look-at-the-history-of-the-ford-f_678609.jpg) > [Today, the Indian government is trying to present privatization as the alternative to the state, to public enterprise. But privatization is only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/today-the-indian-government-is-trying-to-present-privatization-as-the/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/arundhati-roy-346_alternatives_today-the-indian-government-is-trying-to_1044036.jpg) > [Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/just-a-few-years-ago-india-pakistan-and-bangladesh-were-one-country/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1a/arundhati-roy-346_bangladesh_just-a-few-years-ago-india-pakistan-and_1062761.jpg) > [When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/when-was-the-last-time-the-united-states-won-a-war-you-know-it-lost/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac0/arundhati-roy-346_able_when-was-the-last-time-the-united-states_1017188.png) > [I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-think-the-occupy-movement-will-or-at-least-should-become-a-protean/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70e/arundhati-roy-346_action_i-think-the-occupy-movement-will-or-at-l_1694632.jpg) > [Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/now-we-re-in-a-situation-where-democracy-has-been-taken-into-the/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/arundhati-roy-346_corporate_now-we-re-in-a-situation-where-democracy_2947705.jpg) > [We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/we-often-confuse-or-loosely-use-the-ideas-of-crony-capitalism-or/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3c/arundhati-roy-346_capitalism_we-often-confuse-or-loosely-use-the-idea_464717.jpg) > [Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/our-tragedy-today-is-not-just-that-millions-of-people-who-called/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/arundhati-roy-346_afghanistan_our-tragedy-today-is-not-just-that-milli_1223409.jpg) ## Other authors on States ## More by Arundhati Roy > [...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/as-the-disparity-between-the-rich-and-the-poor-grows-the-fight-to/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/in-2001-we-were-told-that-the-war-in-afghanistan-was-a-feminist/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terrorists/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/flat-muscled-and-honey-coloured-sea-secrets-in-his-eyes-a-silver/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/fiction-and-non-fiction-are-only-different-techniques-of-story/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/ngos-have-a-complicated-space-in-neoliberal-politics-they-are/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-ve-never-been-that-person-who-thought-that-because-i-ve-written-one/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/it-is-such-a-supreme-folly-to-believe-that-nuclear-weapons-are-deadly/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-think-one-of-the-saddest-things-that-s-happening-to-literature-is/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-only-dream-worth-having-i-told-her-is-to-dream-that-you-will-live/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/but-what-was-there-to-say-only-that-there-were-tears-only-that/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/truly-there-s-no-alternative-to-stupidity-cretinism-is-the-mother-of/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-secret-of-the-great-stories-is-that-they-have-no-secrets-the/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/stilts-the-ground-floors-given-over-to-parking-it-s-a-good-idea-in/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/perhaps-it-s-true-that-things-can-change-in-a-day-that-a-few-dozen/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/arundhati-roy/#itemlist", "name": "24 States Quotes By Arundhati Roy", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Arundhati Roy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/sometimes-the-state-and-the-constitution-are-more-enlightened-than/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/arundhati-roy-346_constitution_sometimes-the-state-and-the-constitution_894033.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/arundhati-roy-346_constitution_sometimes-the-state-and-the-constitution_894033.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/arundhati-roy-346_constitution_sometimes-the-state-and-the-constitution_894033.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.” — Arundhati Roy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. 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