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World Quotes by Arundhati Roy
- Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.
- Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
- 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…
- We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining…
- The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.
- Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
- The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same…
- Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with…
- I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world...…
- With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black…
- The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
- Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces…
- By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like…
- Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way…
- To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.…
- Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world
- How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in…
- When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked…
- They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both…
- NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are…
- 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 wrenched…
- It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to…
- If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything…
- I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.
- I could have lived anywhere in the world now if I wanted to.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — 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
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach