Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. — 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 mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all...… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the… — 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
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. — 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
