Adore Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image “There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adore Conqueror Despise War
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable …… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. — Ludwig von Mises 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 am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't like the word celebrity. If I become a good actress and be in movies where I'm expected to be a good actress,… — Kelly Reilly Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It isn't called TV money for nothing. There was a time where I paid my rent by doing theater for years, and I was… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I can't give you the normal life you wanted, but I promise to adore you every day for the rest of your… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves. — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna. — Shura Copy Share Image
Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
