“Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“in Delhi there was no war other than the usual one – the war of the rich against the poor.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The war against terror is not really about terror. It's about a superpower's self-destructive impulse toward supremacy, stranglehold, global hemegony.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their… — 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
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 genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide,… — 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
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse… — 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… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't… — 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
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — 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 invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“…though he hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In battle, Musa told Tilo, enemies can’t break your spirit, only friends can” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“But eventually, the Elixir of the Soul that had survived wars and the bloody birth of three new countries, was, like most… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In the years to come, when the war became a way of life, there would be books and films and photo exhibitions… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think it was 50 million people across the world who marched against the war in Iraq. It was perhaps the biggest… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are… — 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
