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Political Quotes by Arundhati Roy
- 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.
- Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other,…
- People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do, and I say,…
- I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker…
- The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the…
- I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that…
- The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an…
- The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know,…
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle