Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image ““Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?”” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“We are human beings. We make gods and do battle with them and they bless us.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?” — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
“I mean, the human race, we are a tribe, let's face it, and let's stop all this religious bullshit. I think everybody, or at… — Björk Copy Share Image
“(...) we must learn to accept that all creatures, however fearsome they may be, are of divine origin.” — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“Humans might not have the strength and regenerative powers of the immortal tribes, but they were ferocious, maniacal little shits. They also had some… — Bethany Lovell 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
