Identity Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image “India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity India Insult Stills
There's a cultural difference between India and the rest of the world. — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
“Over the years the Indian leadership, and the educated Indian, have deliberately projected and embellished an image about Indians that they know to be… — Pavan K. Varma Copy Share Image
Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions. — Parminder Nagra Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
It's the easiest thing today, demonising the Mughals and various other Muslim rulers that India had at different points in its history. Trying to… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Indians are in denial mode and wake up only when foreigners treasure India. They don’t seem to know the value and,therefore, don’t take pride… — Maria Wirth Copy Share Image
There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world. — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
People pass a lot of judgment about each other in India, and that is a tendency I don't like. — Rashami Desai Copy Share Image
I've seen that, over the centuries, India has still got its passion and its soul. Wherever you go, people have such inner strength and… — David Linley Copy Share Image
Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as Indians, to… — Barkha Dutt 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 corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
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 was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
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
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s self. Everything in the worldly life is nothing but intoxication. The food is intoxicating, the senses are intoxicating. [Therefore] Go to the one, who is without mada (pride), the one who has destroyed all intoxication. There… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
