Arundhati roy quotes

The Cost of Living - Arundhati Roy, Beautiful!

“Arundhati Roy is perhaps the wisest voice of our time ⁦@johncusack⁩”

The corporate machine has been growing ever more powerful, perhaps since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution–or has concentration of wealth in the hands of a few just always been the norm? …

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 to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody. | Arundhati Roy Quote

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history..... - Arundhati Roy

To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future. | Arundhati Roy Quote

The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust - and then tries to make it more accountable. | Arundhati Roy Quote

Arundhati Roy has never minced her words. But, in the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The God Of Small Things, she weaves stories within stories. It’s not just about the caste politics of Kerala, no. It’s a [...]