Books Quote by Arundhati Roy

Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of…

— Arundhati Roy

“Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy…

— Isaac Asimov

“In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“The twins hobbled forward. "Freaks and dames and boys and things, drinks and bones and shiny rings," said the twin on the left. "Ashes…

— J.A. Redmerski

“A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity. How…

— Aldous Huxley

“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the crimes of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.

— Samuel Johnson

“That “these people” were ourselves, that this insistence on mistrust of others—that people who looked so very much like each other, who shared a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“there were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they are inherently…

— André Aciman

“But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish them was…

— Fydor Dostoyevsky