Cleansing Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image “She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cleansing Direct Ethnic cleansing Famine Furniture Genocide Threat
She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
“She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide.” — Elisa Albert Copy Share Image
“How could she compare the lives lost? One genocide against another—how did they balance on the scale of justice? And who was she, to… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
“It occurred to her one night that she was one of the vengeful monsters they were scared of: She had killed a white boy.… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Her country had never been aggressive, had never espoused violence, had never taken sides in the squabbles of others. She wondered how people could… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at that Time,… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
“Worse, she already knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the presutural cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“She knew—it was her job as a teacher of history to know—how many horrors are legitimated in public daylight, against the will of most… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
“The genocide had exposed the dangers of a country overly reliant on aid, illuminated the perils of government power concentrated in too few hands… — Jacqueline Novogratz 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
I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I use Bioderma. It's like a cleansing oil. I just use that to cleanse my face, I use moisturizer and that's it. — Alex Consani Copy Share Image
I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
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“Laugh now, and laugh hard. For laughter is the bell. And when it rings, it cleanses the air.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Many think they play the last act. With life in turmoil, they seem to live the setup of a shattering countdown. To an insistent… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver.… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its thoughts need… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
