602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

Terrorism is vicious, ugly, and dehumanizing for its perpetrators as well as its victims. But so is war. You could says that terrorism is the privatization of war. Terrorists are the free marketeers of war. They are people who don't believe that the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

At on level I am happy--awed--that there are people...that have defected from the state...but then there's part of me that thinks... How could you ever have believed in it? Is is possible to have a moral state? A moral superpower? I can't understand those people that believe the excesses are just aberrations ... Of course I understand it intellectually, but ... part of me wants to retain that incomprehension ...

The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

მეხსიერება იმ მატარებლის ქალს ჰგავდა. ნამდვილი გიჟივით დაბორიალობდა საკუთარ ბნელ საწყობებში და იქიდან სრულიად მოულოდნელი რამეები გამოჰქონდა - წამიერი მზერა, გარკვეული შეგრძნება, კვამლის სუნი, საქარე მინის საწმენდები, დედის მარმარილოდ ქცეული თვალები...და ნამდვილი ჭკუათმყოფელივით შეგნებულად ტოვებდა უზარმაზარ ტერიტორიებს ხელუხლებელს, მივიწყების სუდარით შემოსილსა და გაუხსენებელს.

She speaks the most beautiful Urdu.

Funding as fragmented solidarity in ways that repression never could.

Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. We are not fighting to tinker with reforming a system that needs to be replaced.