Flags Quote by Arundhati Roy

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

— Arundhati Roy

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When…

— Arundhati Roy

People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds…

— 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…

— Arundhati Roy

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

— Bill Shuster

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease…

— Edward Bellamy

I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some…

— Cillian Murphy

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found…

— Peter S. Beagle

If the Jews had issues with the Polish people then why during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, did the Jewish underground hang two flags from…

— Andrzej Duda

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be…

— Mark Twain

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being…

— Bill Ayers

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of…

— George C. Marshall