Arundhati Roy Quotes

   1960 -

Indian  author  and  environmental  activist.  Her  first  novel, The God of SmallThings (1997), won the Booker Prize.

The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.

From a speech accepting the Sydney Peace Prize, November 07, 2004 [7]

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The whole ofcontemporary history, theWorld Wars, the War of Dreams, the Man on the Moon, science, literature, philosophy, the pursuit of knowledgewas no more than a blink of the Earth Woman's eye. 701

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— 1997  The God of SmallThings.

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Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.

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— The Greater Common Good May, 1999 [2]

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The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.

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— The Algebra of Infinite Justice September 29, (2001) [5]

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"Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."

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— From a speech entitled Come September

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There is only one dream worth having...to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.

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— From a speech entitled Come September

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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

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— From a speech entitled Come September

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"Another world is not only possible, she's on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe."

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— From a speech entitled Confronting Empire given at the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre, 28 January 2003

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Rahel could see it coursing through his veins, as clearly as an egg travelling down an ostrich's neck.

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— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997), p. 232-33.

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The Kathakali Man is the most beautiful of men. Because his body is his soul.

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— Arundhati Roy quoted in Roni Natov (6 December 2012). The Poetics of Childhood. Routledge. p. 198. ISBN 978-1-136-74935-3. 

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