Hegemony Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image “Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hegemony Human rights Humans Neoliberalism Projects Rights
We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
“[I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characterized the last fifty or so years, there has… — Darren O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
“This is a landmark step in internationalizing our laws by fostering the trend of a globalized human rights regime of shared values.” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the Planet: there,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“The equal and sustainable right of access to the Earth's bounty seems one of the most transcendent truths a human being can contemplate. Yet,… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal. — Miroslav Lajcak Copy Share Image
You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be… — Elizabeth Evatt Copy Share Image
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. — Jimmy Carter 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
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Creating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for… — Amine Zidouh Copy Share Image
The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
The UDHR has become an iconic document over the course of more than six decades, the starting point for discussions of whether or not… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power. — Anonymous Copy Share Image