Arundhati Roy Quotes

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• Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
• Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.
• I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of…
• Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each…
• Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people…
• Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice,…
• Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
• The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against…
• So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted…
• I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother…
• The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
• Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
• Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
• But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize…
• ...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
• At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage…
• You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know,…
• People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and…
• The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear…
• Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a…

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